WEBVTT - Say It To My Face 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.120 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:04.680 with reisent Choice Media. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.960 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, we come, Welcome. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.360 Welcome home, y'all. This is episode thirty of Native Lamppod. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.880 We have the thirty thirty already. I'm your host, Tiffany Cross, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.680 and I'm here with my co host Angela Rye and 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.439 Andrew Gillim. Welcome home, y'all. Hey, Yeah, it's been a 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.840 crazy week. I have to say, like when it comes 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.320 to politics, it feels like a week is an eternity 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.920 in politics. So every time we get off air and 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.600 we come back to the next week, it's like one 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.880 hundred thousand things have happened. How have you all like 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:43.000 processed all this information during the Trump administration? I always 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.600 said like trying to cover him was like trying to 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.159 catch confetti, And so sometimes I feel like something's like 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.320 slip through the cracks. Some things I can't keep up with. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.080 I will tell you guys. Today I am looking at 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.880 what is happening in with in the Middle East, So 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.480 big news out of the Middle East. I'm curious what 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.160 effect that will have on the administration. But by tomorrow 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.000 it'll be a whole, whole other story. But how y'all 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.360 feeling with with this new wind and swing in the campaign. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.119 I took some days off so well, you know, we're 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:14.919 watching the news. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.440 It was your birthday. Birthday. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.080 Thank y'all for the love, and thank y'all also our 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.120 listening family and everyone who sent you know, birthday shout outs. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.640 It was really overwhelming. Had a great birthday dinner, and 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.520 then we turned the weekend over to the kids who 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.480 all wanted to do breakfast with daddy one on one, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.480 lunch with Daddy one and nobody can cook but me, right, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.160 and that's putting it. Uh, but but had a great time. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:52.640 But can I ask real quick? Okay, so you're forty five. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.400 I hope it's better than that last president, though. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.960 Can I ask how old do you feel? 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.040 Oh? It depends on and how I wake up. My 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.520 back hurt and I feel you know, ninety yeah, and 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.720 then some days I feel like a sprut thirty, you know, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.679 like our episode number. So just as they say, you know, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.280 aging number a number, it's more like ages like how 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.239 you feel you're you're about how old you feel? But 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.880 I feel really good, I feel really blessed and looking 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.520 forward to this next three sixty five. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.720 I remember thinking forty five was old. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:28.239 I do. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.359 I think I remember thinking forty five was and I 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:32.239 think I still think it. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:33.880 But I thank you. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.160 They say forty five, like or old, is twenty years 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.240 from wherever you are. So the you know, the older 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.320 you get, the younger these older numbers get. I know 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.000 in my mind, I'm twenty eight, you know until I 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.840 talk to you. Look you look as frowyk you Well, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.720 I feel twenty eight Until I talk to a twenty 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.720 eight year old, it is like no, chick, you and your. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.400 Forty talk to your own peers. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:57.280 Well, happy, belated. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.280 You'll have some time away too. Oh yeah, I'm just saying, y'a. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.040 I'm just curious, like, do y'all feel like you miss 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.600 something when you were away? Or like, are you like whatever? 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.720 I'll fit in where I get in when I come back. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.880 Now I's connected, But I think Angela was looking at 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:13.280 her phone. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.440 I actually left my phone quite a bit TIF and 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.640 I told you did. I left it quite a bit. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.360 It was great to get away. We have an annual 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.280 girls vacation with the Machetes, and we had a good time. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.440 We made sure to send our brother Andrew a happy 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.919 Birthday video from Mexico Video, and there will be some 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.920 clips posted. There's already one circulating where Natasha Brown was 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.880 getting a kiss from a sea lion and I didn't 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.200 look too pleased or excited about it. So those things 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.920 will be circulating. But I tell you what, I am 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:47.800 excited about forty seven being Madam resident, not Madam Vice President. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.240 So I'm excited about talking about this and all the 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.680 things in this episode. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.800 Yeah, I think let's get into it, because you know, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.320 there's so many opinions and so much information out there. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.240 And one of the things on Vacation Andrew that Angela 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.880 and I talked about is I was saying, like, I 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.560 don't want to spend a bunch of time, you know, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.360 picking over everything right wing Republican extremists say about Vice 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.080 President Harris. I just, you know, like that, I just 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.680 don't like it. But Angela had a different perspective, which 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.640 actually like won me over and convinced me. So, Angela, 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.360 what was your counterpoint to me saying I don't want 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.680 to spend a bunch of time talking about that, A. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.559 Bunch of time time about west Side I was trying 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:30.880 to check. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:36.160 Well, So Angela's point. Yeah. So Angela's counterpoint was, but 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.320 people need to know what to say, you know, like 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.040 when when they say, oh, she's a Dei higher, that's 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:43.960 such nonsense to me that I'm like, why would we 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.760 spend our time? Our audience knows she's not a Dei higher. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.960 But Angela's point was, I think we should arm people 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.720 with a retort, you know, with a counterpright. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.600 No, I don't remember what I said, Yes, but that 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.000 is true. You know what else, Taraji, I am a 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.720 Deei higher and I'm proud of it. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.520 I think I'm about to tell you what is going 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.960 on with Angela? Why did she call me Tai? I'm 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.320 not talking about you, girl. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.920 Let me make my point about Taraji p Henson. What 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.360 I was about to say was, I am a Dei hier. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.880 Kamala Harris will be a Dei high. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.919 You know a de I means now, definitely earned it. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.960 Definitely earned it. So I'm excited about claiming claiming our title. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.960 What's the Taraji forgive me for? Taraji posted it? 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.760 She posted it, and that's what I said, relaxed, man. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:32.479 I know you're tech. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:33.880 She's being. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.320 Why did you call me Taraji? 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.800 I didn't know all that would be a problem. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.800 I left her too, but you should have your own name. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.880 It's wonderful and you've done so many great things. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.920 But moreover, I love that that she's been so at 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.520 the forefront, I mean putting. I mean we talked about 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.920 Project twenty twenty five some time ago, but by and large, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.200 you know, I think everyday folks hadn't really plugged in. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.480 And then she goes to the bet wards, she shouts 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.480 it out, she gives it. You know, it's time in 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.520 this space, and it blows up as like number one search. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.280 Yeah, so I appreciate this. D What is Project twenty 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.320 twenty five? So shout out to Taraji and whatever else 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.920 and shout out to Stoever. In this episode, Joy did 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.719 the whole episode. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.600 She did an incredible executive Yeah, exacutive. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.360 So we're going to get into all of this on 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.880 the episode. We're also going to talk about the VP stakes. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.800 By the time you are listening to this episode, there 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.800 is a chance that Vice President Harris would have named 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:33.200 her running mate, So we'll we'll get into that and 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.320 we Andrew, I know you want to talk about the 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.200 child Tax Credit, which means a lot to you for 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.480 obvious reasons and probably a lot to a lot of 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.120 our listeners as well. So let's let's jump right in. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.160 Do you do you guys mind? Because I want you 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.120 all to know that Angela has been reading Projects twenty 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.360 twenty five line by line, and one of our listener 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.400 questions Donald Trump has been trying distance himself from Project 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.440 twenty five out of the blue, and one of our 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.200 viewer questions points this out, and I think it's a 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.360 great way to kick off the show. So let's roll 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:14.080 that question, Nick. I believe this is from Douglas. Gill Douglas, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.320 Hey native lampod. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.560 My name is Gil Douglas. I live in Dallas, Texas, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.640 and I don't actually have a question. I'm more like, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.960 have just a comment. As we are encouraging folks to 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.560 have conversation around Project twenty twenty five, which I wholeheartedly support, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.160 I'm reading it myself. I also want to make sure 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.320 that as we acknowledge and understand that Donald Trump is 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.800 trying to separate himself from that manifesto, that he actually 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.440 has a series of videos out there that speak to 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.280 his platform, his intention around what he would do should 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.480 he get into office. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.400 It's called Agenda forty seven. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.040 Now I've not listened to Agenda forty seven yet because 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.200 his voice makes my ears bleed, but I am want 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.320 to listen to it because I think there'll be parallels 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.320 between that and Project twenty twenty five. And as he 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.760 continues to say I'm not proud of Project twenty five 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.000 that has nothing to do with me, then I think 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.320 we need to encourage folks to go listen to the 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.480 things that he has put out them there himself in 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.000 Agenda forty seven. You'll probably be able to draw parallels 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.880 between the two, but it allows us to have the 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.320 conversation with him about what he's actually said while he 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.280 is trying to distance himself away from something that we 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.840 all know he will implement should he ever get elected. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.679 Thank you, y'all have a great one. Yeah, thank you 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.839 so so much. I love I love our listeners and 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.200 our viewers turning in these great questions and comments letting 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.440 us know that they definitely feel at home. So that's 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.920 the most important thing I will say. Donald Trump cannot 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.560 distance himself from Project twenty twenty five. We know from 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.520 reports I think three weeks ago, that one hundred and 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:03.040 forty people are associated with project twenty twenty five, who 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.520 used to work for Donald J. Trump, Right, So there's 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.800 no distancing whether you call it project forty seven, project 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.680 twenty twenty five, project throwback forty five, project January sixth, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.439 project Supreme Court, got bigots on it. Whatever you call it, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.400 it is Donald Trump's plan. They have been wanting to 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.640 borrow in employees in the federal government who were partisan 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.760 and would work the Heritage Foundation agenda since Ronald Reagan. Like, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.640 let's be very clear about the fact that nothing has changed. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.400 Their make America great again is to make America Handmaid's 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.360 Tale again, and we're not here for it. So we 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.160 know exactly what it is. We're not confused, and we 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.319 can move right along. But I do look forward to 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.400 getting more into the nine hundred pages where they take 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.920 away more of women's rights, where they try to chastise 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:55.040 and punish the LGBTQIA community, where they tried to make 0:09:55.160 --> 0:10:00.320 children work beyond what is okay for labor laws, all 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.640 of that I would look I look forward to talking 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.360 about how they would like to defund Headstart and make 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.320 life more difficult for our seniors who have definitely served 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.160 this nation and helped to build it, so let's talk 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.360 about it another time. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.400 Well, I think it's important for the viewers to know 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.800 what exactly is in Agenda forty seven. And one thing 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.120 a lot of people have given the Republicans credit for 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.680 is the First Step Act, which we've talked a little 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.280 bit about on this show. The First Step Act was 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.959 introduced by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. He did have a Republican 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.560 counterpart joined him in that it was a bipartisan piece 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.319 of legislation that was intended to correct some of the 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.760 previous injustices when it comes to crime. Now, I never 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.760 gave Republicans credit for this, I think, you know, because 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.559 they pulled the knife six inches out our back. It 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.800 was still in our backs. Nonetheless, and all of that 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.800 work that they attempted to do they are now or 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.480 attempted to undo. Rather, they are now reintroducing in both 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.120 Projects twenty twenty five and Agenda forty seven. Some of 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.640 those things include the death penalty for drug dealers. Now, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.600 one wants to define, well, what exactly is the drug dealer? 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.880 If you sell in a nickel bag of weed someplace 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.640 where it's not legalized, are you then eligible for the 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.199 death penalty? Another thing. He wants to invest significant amounts 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.240 of the federal budget into police hiring, more police, training, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.640 more police. That has not served us well. The last 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.560 time we saw something like that was during the era 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.760 of a George H. W. Bush, who tripled funding for 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.839 criminal justice efforts that basically declared a war on black people. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.640 Donald Trump wants to implement stopping frisk programs across the country. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.120 And this is when someone can law enforcement officer can 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.720 just come to you and stop you for any reason 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.240 and frisk you. A lot of people already live in 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.119 stopping frisk areas, whether it's legal or not, of harassment 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.559 like this. We just saw what happened with Sonya Massey, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.120 which Angela talked a bit about last week. He also 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.640 wants to abolish the cash bail system. We don't have 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.360 to recount how many people have been negatively and adversely 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.199 impacted by that, from Khalif Browder to the names that 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.320 you've never heard who were just in prison because they 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.000 couldn't afford bail. He wants to overhaul the Department of 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.480 Education to allow miners to be disciplined. This is the 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.559 quote unquote pro Life party who purportedly cares so much 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:25.400 about children. He wants to take federal tax dollars and 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.319 create something called American University that's free education. And you 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.240 can imagine with the wars on things they're imagined boogeyman 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:38.000 of critical race theory that really isn't taught in K 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.520 through twelve, they want to ban things like that at 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.200 this American University. I can't imagine what they would teach. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.880 So there's a lot of dangerous policy, and I wanted 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:50.439 to exactly and I wanted to point out the crime 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.960 part of this, because there's a significant number of people 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:58.480 out there who misattribute Vice President Harris's record as a prosecutor. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.520 And one of those people, well is my friend. I 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.319 love you, brother, and I appreciate what you did. And 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.679 that's d o Hugh Glee. And he has since informed 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.360 and educated himself and taken it upon himself to help 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.160 educate voters and his listeners. So if we can, I 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.880 want you all to take a listen to what Doo 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.000 hughgly said and we'll talk about it on the other side. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.679 I have said before, I used to repeat to some 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.360 of the same things at nauseum that people are right now. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.520 Oh well, she blocked up a lot of black men. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.640 I lived in this state my whole life. I had 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.160 an occasion to talk to her on several occasions. I 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.559 accused her on this radio station, on this network of 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.760 the same things that people are doing right now. If 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.840 you are the people right now who are misquoting her record, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.880 we are not the same. If you believe that her 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.800 locking people up from weed is worse than a man 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.280 who says he wants to give Adope Talers the definitely 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:48.400 we are not the same. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.000 If you want me to remember her. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.320 Past but not Trump's past, were not the same. If 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.040 you want to remind me of her record but don't 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.319 want to talk about Project twenty twenty five. Have you 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.080 ever known the same black people that want to tell 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.280 you she sold all weed and locked all these people up. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.319 I'll tell you they don't believe the twenty twenty five 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.360 as Trunk's plan for a second for a second term. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.599 There is a reason for that. If you're telling me 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.160 you're not gonna vote for her because she has a 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.920 white husband, then we're not the same. Well, she ain't 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:14.400 black enough. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:14.920 I tell you what. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.680 She's a black woman. She went to Oakland, She's from Oakland. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.240 She went to an HBCU. She's an aka. She had 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.720 a boyfriend named Willie, and she. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:24.360 Got a name. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.280 First name is hard for everybody. Pronounced it sounds different 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.120 than it's failed. That's black enough for me. But what 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.200 I do know for sure is that she can win 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.040 if we decide it is so. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.040 I mean, Viols a comedian, So obviously there were some 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.360 jokes there, but very serious message Andrew, and I feel 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 like he was directing this towards a lot of black men. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.200 Curious your thoughts and what is like the chatter you 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.600 here talk about your issues? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:48.960 Well? 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.920 No, no, no, Because I'm this personal regard to him, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:58.520 I do appreciate Fairs the example of learning from your 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:03.680 past mistakes and being better and hopefully on the pursuit 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.120 of continued betterment as we all should be, and moreover, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.440 hopefully setting an example for all of us that when 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.880 we get it wrong, that we can, as loudly as 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.360 we call out our wrongness, can loudly pronounce what is right. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.200 So I appreciate from him that example may continue. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.800 Yeah, I take issue with a couple of things here too. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.520 I think it's important when we strive to fact check 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.720 that we don't throw out things that also are a 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:44.320 little incorrect, and even the highlight about Willie I deeply, deeply, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.400 deeply hate and I wish that he didn't. It's so petty, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.360 It's so petty and unnecessary. It gives them ammunition for 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.160 something that we don't need. This is, you know, we're 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.720 in a campaign season where I often say it's a 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.680 political war where on another channel they can call Kamala 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.440 the original hawk tool girl, right, So why are we 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.840 feeding into any of that? Like I wish that he 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.200 hadn't done that, I will also say that I wish 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.840 that he'd said the actual number of people that were 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.400 locked up for marijuana charges while Kamala Harris was DA 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:25.600 was forty five people? Is that too many? Before? You know, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.720 marijuana was legal in some states? Arguably right, forty five. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.840 But let's compare that record to every other prosecutor in 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.960 the country. Let's compare it to see how she did. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.000 And if you look at the things that she said, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.080 whether it was at the State of the Black Union, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.600 at Howard or was while she was running for office, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.320 she was a very progressive prosecutor at that time, and 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.200 I think that her Senate record fulfills that legacy of 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.760 being very progressive, progressive on criminal justice reform, on police reform, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.720 on voting rights, on black maternal health, on how we 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.440 earn education, and how we earn a living. She has 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.360 been extraordinarily progressive. And by that I'm not just talking 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.639 about liberal right, I'm talking about someone who's thinking about 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.280 the ways to move us forward. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.840 Well, I'm glad that you all added to what doo 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.240 Heagley was trying to do. I do think it was 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.600 with good intention, but I definitely I'm hearing you, guys. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.760 But we got a lot more to talk about because 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.920 I Donald Trump, by the time you guys listen to 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.560 this podcast, will be speaking to the National Association of 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.119 Black Journalists, and I got a bone to pick about that. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.040 So we're gonna pay some bills and pick this conversation 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:47.000 up on the other side. So we have been talking 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.680 about this a lot in our group chat, I'll tell 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.800 you guys. So the National Association of Black Journalists invited 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.639 both presidential candidates to speak to their convention, which is 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.879 happening this week in Chicago, Illinois. That in Harris had 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.280 a scheduling conflict because she's campaigning, so she you know, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.600 offered what she could reportedly She offered a video, to 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.159 which NABJA declined, and Donald Trump has offered to show up. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.400 I'm sorry. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.480 I think she offered as well a live chat sort. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.760 Of join remote, and they declined, and so Donald Trump 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.000 accepted to be there in person to be interviewed by 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.159 three journalists. I put that in quotes because one of 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:35.320 those journalists is Harris Faulkner, who is from Fox News, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.520 and we all know that the challenges with that. I 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.680 just want to say I do not agree with this decision. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.840 I strongly condemn it. Again, I understand that this has 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.800 been the tradition of NABJ for a long time. You 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.840 invite both presidential candidates, but to treat this like it's 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.760 a normal election, like Donald Trump is a normal candidate. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.360 To me, this is what happens when black reporters take 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.000 on the personality of white run newsrooms and then start 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.920 moving with white sensibility. Donald Trump has been insulting to journalists, 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:12.199 all journalists, but specific journalists in particular April Ryan, longtime 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:17.520 NABJ member, Johnny Alsendor, longtime NABJ member, Jamel Hill, longtime 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.439 Machete member and NABJ member, and our girl. He actually 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.680 called for her to be fired while he was president. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.520 It is so disrespectful. There is a whole contingency of 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.200 an LGBTQ task force. He is very or his administration, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.480 his policies are very anti LGBTQ. This is a place 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.600 when we gather where we feel safe, and they have 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.280 disrupted that. I don't like it. I don't like it 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.520 at all. I think it's disrespectful and an embarrassment to 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:49.359 NABJ and to me, they have increasingly proved they are 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.479 less relevant today by making decisions like this. But Angela, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.680 I know you have thoughts, Andrew, you have thoughts, Angela, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:56.920 what do you think about it? 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.639 I think, first, NABJ continues to be disappointment. I actually 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.360 posted last night that this, to me is an extension 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.520 of the harm that they themselves caused by not asking 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.879 questions after your show was canceled three days before the 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:15.040 election in November and they refused to really engage. And 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.560 I think, to me, when you can't ask tough questions 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.040 of networks, but you can ask softball questions in a 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:26.840 range for a white supremacist, an insurrectionist, a terrorist, and 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:31.680 a serial offender, questions because he said he wants to 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.440 show up and he wants to know what the hell 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.960 do we have to lose. I think that's highly problematic. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:40.240 You have an historic candidate who can't come because she's 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.120 going to the funeral of a Congressional Black Caucus member, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.160 Sheila Jackson Lee, where Kamala Harris was very active as 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:52.280 a member. You would think that they would understand the situation. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:57.320 I think moreover, you know, if they're to be fair 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.639 to Kamala Harris's campaign, they did release a statement saying 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:02.320 that all Donald Trump is gonna get up there and 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.040 do is lie about the accomplishments he's made and done 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.840 on behalf of black people. So I hope that they 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.840 will rethink inviting her virtually so she can speak to 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.840 the Zeta, so she can go to s jl's funeral 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.160 and God rest her soul, but also be more mindful 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.800 about what our obligations are as black people in media, 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.320 as black journalists to cover. But this is exactly what 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.159 Tip said. It's a safe space for her. Ain't never 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.520 been a safe space for me. So I don't go there. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.720 I wish you all the best, and I hope maybe 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.560 real soon, maybe this commision you elect better stronger leadership, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.359 that actually has integrity and knows what journalistic standards are 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.040 all about, with the remembering first to do no harm, 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.000 especially to your DU's pay members. 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:48.159 Yes, and I've gone, and also not only have I gone, 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.639 but I in different capacities professionally. I've funneled a lot 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:57.240 of money to an ABJ because they function on sponsorship 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:01.400 and contributions, and it's worth no voting. When they were 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:05.560 vocal behind the scenes to me when everything went down 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.320 with my show, they were silent publicly. It's worth noting 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.040 that they take quite a bit of money from NBC Universal, 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:18.040 So I don't know beyond those facts. That's what I'll say. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.000 When they select, they select which hands they gonna bite 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:22.960 that feed them. You see what I'm saying. So a 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:25.879 duce fand member they'll bite, a sponsor they won't, And 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.480 hopefully all of our organizations can do better there. I 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.800 know we got some conversations they have that our family talk, correct. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.600 I mean, that's that's real. I have to say. It 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:41.280 does it does hurt when we have organizations like in 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:47.360 the National Associated Black Associational Black Journalists who I think 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:51.960 I probably connected most Tiffany to your comments about taking 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:59.119 on and replicating white infrastructure and you know, a majority 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:05.359 thinking methodology, when your existence might be different in this space. 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.399 For instance, if what you exist to do is to 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.240 perpetuate the same harm that's been perpetuated amongst you in white, 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:18.560 largely white rooms of journalisms, of the of where the 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.760 paper gets cut, where decisions get made, where editorial decisions 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:24.600 to either prop up your byline or not, you know, 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.000 are determined, it would just seem to me that you 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:31.720 wouldn't then seek to replicate similar types of harm. That 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.760 maybe it is worth asking why did we need to 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:40.920 be set a part separate apart from the majority organization 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.680 that exists in our honor and our name as journalists? 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:46.520 What do we have to do differently to show up 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.639 in this space that we don't have free license to 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:51.879 do and therefore we need each other's backing in support 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:55.119 to do. We don't create these organizations as a side 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.520 just to be as sides. By and large, these separate 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:06.160 organizations which cater largely to minority groups, groups that are underseen, underheard, promoted, 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.600 and undersupport it needs spaces by which they get to 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:13.240 experience that. And I'll just say, as a candidate for 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:15.480 a state wide office in a state where black people 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.760 are less than twelve percent of the state's population. It 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.720 mattered to me when there were zero black journalists in 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:26.280 the state wide press court covering politics. It mattered to 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:29.159 me that the types of questions that I had to answer, 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:33.600 the source of lambasting that I got from air editorial pages, 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:36.560 by comparison to my opponents, who were far worse, I mean, 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.359 just worse creatures, worse humans. I attribute to the fact 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:42.479 that that there were people writing about this who had 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:46.959 no sense or sensibility about what shared experience, because there 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.080 was no shared experience that might exist on my road 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:53.320 to leadership versus somebody else's. So when I draw back 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:56.440 from this, it is I think it is important to 0:24:56.560 --> 0:25:01.840 have spaces like NABJ, But it's only important to me 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:07.960 to the extent that they're helping to level the systems 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:11.720 that so often level us in these professions. And I 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.960 know good people who associate here, and I know they're 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.720 not time wasters, They're people who are good at what 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.120 it is that they do. I would seriously. I saw 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.440 the president, one of the presidents or co chairs or whatever, 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:28.200 on an interview on television earlier, and his comportment was 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:34.359 so dismissive of the president of Kamala Harris, including referring 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:36.000 to her as Kamala. Now, I don't know if they're 0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:40.840 longtime friends, but given the under which he spoke, of 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:43.920 which he spoke, I have to assume probably not. Maybe 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.239 they've never spoke. Maybe they are not friends, maybe they 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:47.760 don't know each other life not friends. 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.040 He had on a black undershirt. We talked about that 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:50.600 as well. 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:54.280 And therefore it might make sense, it might make sense 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:57.840 to respectfully refer to her as vice president. He has 0:25:58.000 --> 0:25:59.760 no clue either way. 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:00.840 I'm with you, Andrew. 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.840 We have to be better, do better. And to the 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:09.280 extent that these organizations just become replicas of their majorities institutions, 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.720 then it is of little use it as far as 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:16.480 I'm concerned. And to the extent that you then rise 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:18.800 up to level the systems that have kept you a pressing. 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:21.879 In front of you're talking about the vice president of 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.800 the United States and you're giving a press conference to reporters, 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:26.720 you're speaking to reporters, and he was calling her Kamala 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:28.680 like they just got a phone yesterday. I thought it 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:32.359 was disrespectful, But I know there are people who have 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:37.040 a challenge saying her name Angela. Yes, it's not me, 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:44.520 Kamala and all this, and they do that right. It's 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:46.080 not a mistake. It's with intention. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:48.080 I heard, I heard Doug has some advice for you. 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:50.919 Oh yeah, definitely got some gentlemen. 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.040 Not just for them, but for the man who was 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.920 once commander in chief, much to our chagrin. 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:58.680 Wh we roll that real quick, Nick, Well, I can't 0:26:58.680 --> 0:26:59.240 wait to hear it. 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:03.159 You see my times real quick wrote that real quick me. 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:07.080 Mister Trump, I know you have so much trouble pronouncing, 0:27:07.720 --> 0:27:08.720 but here's the good news. 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.760 After the election, you can just call her Madam President. 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:18.920 I love it. 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:19.720 That's easy. 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:20.600 And here's the point. 0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:22.600 Doug's going hard with the bars. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:24.199 I just figured, I keep going go ahead to. 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:32.280 I like your fretyle, I like your keep going, keep going. 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:37.320 Give it to a hater, such a hater. Okay, can 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:39.000 I tell y'all. I'm not going to get into it, 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:41.240 but let me just tell y'all. So when we were 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:46.320 on vacation, Angela dropped a five minute freestyle that was 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.720 off the dome that was so good. And there is 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:52.880 a video I don't know that released. 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:59.400 Nerves be released, but just what I tell you. It was, y'all. 0:27:59.440 --> 0:27:59.920 It was dope. 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:02.320 It was it was Okay, it got kind of rough 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:04.640 on that third verse, but it was to the bankers. 0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:09.160 I apologize the remix for all my machetes. I apollo, 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:12.120 and I'll leave it there. 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:17.520 Okay, we gotta take another break. But before we go 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:21.240 to break, Angela, I I just want to because we're 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:23.760 gonna talk about more challenges on the other side, and 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:25.680 I think we're halfway through the show. I would like 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:27.920 to introduce a little bit of hope into the conversation, 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:31.639 because you know, I've been feeling apathetic and I didn't 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:33.960 see this, but you were telling us when we were 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:37.400 on the phone this morning that Senator Rafael Warnock had 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:40.240 something sweet to say. Apparently we did. 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:43.160 We got We gotta run that thing for all the 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:46.080 future and the kids that we have now out in 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:49.040 the world, especially Andrews three, who he has locked up 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:56.560 during the podcast. But they shall see freedom just like food, 0:28:56.600 --> 0:28:59.760 and they're comfortable at home. There's air conditioning. But I'm 0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:02.240 gonna I've read my niece and my nephews to get 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:05.360 ice cream through Apple Bay after this, and we'll be 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:06.440 back after this break. 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:08.560 Oh, Lord. 0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:13.040 So I sat down and I wrote a letter. 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:16.080 To my five year old daughter. 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:19.560 She was five at the time, Chloe, and I said, 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:23.320 dear Chloe. Today we confirmed to the United States Supreme 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:26.920 Court Justice Kataja Brown Jackson in the history of our nation. 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.200 She's the first Supreme Court justice who looks like you, 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:38.840 with hair like yours. As we were confirming her, a 0:29:38.920 --> 0:29:43.360 friend of mine, the Vice President, suggested that I write 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:45.280 a letter. By the way, she's the first vice president 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:51.960 who looks like you. I write to say that in America, 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:55.520 you can be anything you set your head and your 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:56.360 heart to beat. 0:29:58.520 --> 0:29:58.920 Love that. 0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:02.240 I wrote that letter to my five year old daughter. 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:05.280 I was so caught up with enthusiasm. I called on 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:10.760 FaceTime to read the letter. She's five years old. She 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:17.400 listened to the letter. She was not impressed. She said, 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:21.240 can I go out and play now? She didn't understand 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:24.360 that letter then, but she don't understanding in. 0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:25.040 A few years. 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:32.280 I wrote that letter to my daughter. 0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:38.720 But Georgia, America, now is our time to write a 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:40.320 letter to all of our children. 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:43.160 Now is our time to write a letter to the future. 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:58.960 All Right, So y'all know, you know, you know how 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:01.280 I feel about these tech credits. I think I drop 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:05.400 a mention of it nearly every episode, but I'm mentioning 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:09.720 it today as JD Vance I think earlier this week 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:15.000 in an interview, alluded to the fact that because Vice 0:31:15.080 --> 0:31:17.680 President Harris didn't have any kids, you know, the whole 0:31:18.000 --> 0:31:25.280 kitten child. Yeah, but Betty references her not having any 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:27.880 biological children means that she would not have been four, 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:30.320 alluding to the fact that she would not have been four, 0:31:30.480 --> 0:31:35.240 or in favor of extending the child tax credit increase, 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:39.720 which is blooney, ludicrous, you know, any other word we 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:42.080 can think of. But I did want to note that 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:48.400 Senate Majority Leader Schumer decided to put on this week's 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.560 agenda before the US Senate goes on its August recess, 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:56.600 actually ring up that text credit relief for American families 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:58.120 and just for those of us who haven't followed it 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:02.560 closely back in January. The end of January, a bipartisan 0:32:02.760 --> 0:32:06.520 group of votes from Republicans and Democrats passed out of 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:09.760 the House with three hundred and fifty seven votes tax 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:12.760 relief for American workers and families, and a sentinel piece 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:17.600 of it was expanding the child tax credit to cover 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:22.560 sixteen million kids from low income and middle income families, 0:32:23.000 --> 0:32:27.400 lifting y'all over five hundred thousand children out of poverty, 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:31.200 and just real quick, what it would have done and 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:35.000 what it will do if it passes is the bill 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:37.280 will raise the cap on the child tax credit for 0:32:37.320 --> 0:32:42.560 low income families, making all two thousand dollars now per 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:46.240 chiut eligible for them to claim as part of their 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:51.400 tax credit. And as you recall from the COVID relief package, 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:55.120 those tax credit refunds came in phases so that folks 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:59.680 didn't have to wait until reinging up and completing their 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:01.600 tax work at the next at the start of the 0:33:01.640 --> 0:33:04.479 new year before they can recoup the benefits. The other 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:06.840 thing that it did is the bill will stop the 0:33:07.000 --> 0:33:10.960 long standing discrimination against low income families who have multiple 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:14.760 kids from being able to claim the entire two thousand 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:18.680 per child. Before the government required if you were a 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:21.000 low income family with multiple children, that you get the 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:23.720 first two thousand on one kid and then it will 0:33:23.760 --> 0:33:26.800 go down appreciably for a future for other children. Again 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:31.240 a penalty on those families who have multiple multiple children children. 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:34.400 I think most folks who are watching this are not 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:37.960 optimistic that it will gain the kind of Republican support 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:40.600 that it's going to need the sixty vote threshold that 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:43.560 it will need to cross over in the US Senate. 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:46.720 But my hope is is that this is a piece 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:49.960 of legislation that will be picked up before this Congress 0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:51.920 moves into a lame duck session or out of a 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:54.240 lame duck session, and then it is recessed and the 0:33:54.360 --> 0:33:56.840 process would have to start, as you know, all over again. 0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:59.320 For those of you families at home who are following this, 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:05.760 many refer to it as the Widen Smith Tax Reform 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:10.480 and Relief Package. Please please, please, please please continue to 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:13.880 follow it. Pressure members is incredibly important and again has 0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:17.360 the benefit of lifting over a half a million children 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:23.040 immediately out of the federal poverty standards. It's it's it's huge, y'all. 0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:24.799 If it could could pait so well. 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.080 The Democrats have the Senate, so I you know, think 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:28.520 it probably has a good chance of passing. 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:32.080 But Andrew, honestly, well, it's got across the filibuster threshold. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.239 That's where we are now, is that it won't cross 0:34:34.320 --> 0:34:37.160 the sixty the sixty voats that are necessary. Even though 0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:42.120 there is Republican support for this piece of legislation sponsored 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:44.440 by both the Senate, by both the Senate Republican and 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:45.719 a House and a Senate. 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.960 So people really do need to press their elected representatives 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:52.120 to make sure absolutely. Andrew, honestly, I'm really happy that 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:54.640 you brought this up, because you know, I feel like 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:56.920 the echo chambers I complain about every week if they 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:59.520 focus on the same three story, same three sound bites, 0:34:59.520 --> 0:35:02.040 and it really is just an echo chamber of what 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:04.680 we already know. If you watch the news at nine am, 0:35:04.760 --> 0:35:06.560 you're gonna hear the same thing by five pm if 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:08.880 there's no breaking news. But in this particular case, there 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:10.320 hasn't even been a lot of coverage on this in 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:13.240 print media, and I gonna say none, but there hasn't 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:15.000 been a lot as much as it should be. And 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:18.520 I think sometimes if we focus on policy and informing 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:21.279 the audience, everybody has an opinion. I don't really give 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:23.399 a damn about everybody's opinion all the time. So these 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.480 constant opinion panels that we see you leave and it's like, yeah, 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:28.160 I know how these who gives a shit people feel 0:35:28.400 --> 0:35:30.680 I did not learn anything. And so this is something 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:33.200 that has an impact on a huge pocket of the country. 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:36.200 That we virtually heard nothing about. So that's why you 0:35:36.320 --> 0:35:38.680 tune in a native land, because we don't just opine. 0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:41.320 We try our best to inform. So I'm happy that 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:44.640 that we talked about that. I think it's hugely important. 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:46.920 Can I I just want to shift a little bit. 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:51.279 I kind of love and I am enjoying that. The 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:55.920 Republicans are absolutely shook, like they don't know how to 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:58.800 deal with the black woman at the top of the ticket. 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:02.080 They don't know how attack her, they don't know how 0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:04.640 to vibe with her. Donald Trump said, did y'all know 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:07.040 she was sixty? I thought she was younger? Yeah, baby, 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:10.680 because we a's like fine wine, okay, like y'll never 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:11.520 know how old we are. 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:13.359 But I want you to you. You see, he didn't 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:16.400 make that comment about his vice president right exactly, because. 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:19.000 Honestly, I thought David Vance was about fifty and he 0:36:19.200 --> 0:36:22.320 is not. But I want I want you all to 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:24.960 listen to what jd Vance said. Now he does not 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:28.440 know he's being recorded. This was at a fundraising event 0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:32.400 and someone recorded the audio of what he said about 0:36:33.200 --> 0:36:35.640 Vice President Harris entering the race. So take a listen 0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:37.080 and we'll discuss it on the other side. 0:36:37.600 --> 0:36:39.320 All of us were hit with a little bit of 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:43.040 a political suffer punch. The badges is that Kamala Harris 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:46.440 does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden, because 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:50.600 whatever we might say, Kala Harris is a lot younger 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:54.480 and Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:55.600 way as that Joe Biden did. 0:36:58.120 --> 0:37:02.920 Is this a campaign for the hair? What it sounded 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:05.759 like to me? And I just think it speaks to 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:10.279 uh that that we are such an impenetrable force that 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:13.880 they really don't know how to deal with us. Angela, 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:18.480 you expressed you have won me over on another perspective 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:21.600 that you had, and that is about Secretary Pete Boudage Edge. 0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:25.000 I mean, he's really made the rounds. He went on 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:27.160 The Daily Show, which I do watch, I did not 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:29.880 in real time watch his interview with Fox News. You 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:31.759 know how I feel about people going on Fox News. 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:35.760 He went on Fox News Sunday and was an amazing 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.200 communicator and very compelling. I don't know how many Fox 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.600 News viewers were receptive, but when I was watching, I 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:44.680 was like, this is what Angela was saying, Like, go 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:47.600 on there and beat them at their own game. Did 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:49.440 you see that interview or see any of the stuff 0:37:49.440 --> 0:37:50.319 that he's been doing this week? 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:53.400 I did not see it, but I know we have 0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:55.160 a clip, So why don't we roll that clip and 0:37:55.200 --> 0:37:56.840 then talk about it on the other side. 0:37:57.000 --> 0:37:59.640 Perfect, That's a real reason I think she's going to win. 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:04.160 That most Americans already agree with her on the issues 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.640 that they care about the most. Her stance on defending 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:10.279 a woman's right to choose versus Donald Trump, who eliminated 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.880 a right to choose in this country, well in the States, 0:38:13.400 --> 0:38:15.600 be fair, Let's be very clear. He is proud of 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:18.680 the fact that he demolished the national right to choose 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:21.480 in this country, period. And our country has watched our 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:25.080 president lead, and yes, we've also seen the fact that 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:27.319 he's ten years older than he was ten years ago. 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:30.359 But unlike Republicans will take a look at Donald Trump 0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:33.520 and say he's perfectly fine, even though he seemed unable 0:38:33.560 --> 0:38:36.240 to tell the difference between Nicky Haley and Nancy Pelosi, 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:40.040 even though he's rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter. 0:38:40.320 --> 0:38:42.760 They say he's strong as an ox leaps tall buildings 0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:45.480 in a single bound. Well, we don't have that kind 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:48.719 of warped reality on our side. On the contrary, the 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:51.880 President confronted that reality in what must have been one 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.840 of the most difficult decisions for an American president to 0:38:54.920 --> 0:38:57.680 make ever, and he did something that I don't think 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.600 Donald Trump could even conceive of doing, which is putting 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:04.560 his own interests aside for the country, trying to make 0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:08.319 people think that crime is up when crime is down 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:11.600 under Joe Biden and crime was up under Donald Trump. Now, 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.840 I don't know how often that gets reported on this network. 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:16.360 So if you're watching this at home, do yourself a 0:39:16.400 --> 0:39:18.160 favor and look up the data. 0:39:18.880 --> 0:39:19.720 That great. 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:21.440 So if you look this up at home, you will 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:24.359 know that crime went down under Biden and crime went 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:26.879 up under Trump. And I think the violent crime for sure. 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:27.879 Yah. 0:39:28.239 --> 0:39:31.720 I think they not going to have her interview him again. 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:34.200 Circles around that home. 0:39:34.320 --> 0:39:34.920 Let me take that. 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:37.040 I think they retired here. 0:39:37.400 --> 0:39:39.800 Let me tell you something at church, since I just 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:41.880 called his lady at home. At church, they say, if 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:46.360 you can't say a word, just wave your hand, secretary. 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:52.719 Let me tell you Andrew, she said she cannot get 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:55.239 a word in edgewise, and he got her so good. 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:58.800 So this is my point. When you are strong on facts, 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:02.560 when you know you're material, you go and you demolish 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:03.320 the opposition. 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:04.200 That is what you do. 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:06.760 That is why Kamala Harris will go on the debate 0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:09.840 stage without Donald Trump, because she's still gonna stand on 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:12.360 the strength of the facts. We do not have to 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:17.120 be intimidated by Fox. Sure, it's nonsense, but people are 0:40:17.200 --> 0:40:20.439 watching that nonsense wall to wall coverage every single day. 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:23.600 Go and be a disruptor. Sometimes, go and meet people 0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:26.600 where they are in their conspiracy theories, break down the 0:40:26.719 --> 0:40:29.360 myths behind all of those conspiracy theories, and do it 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:31.560 with grace and class if you can. I already told 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.160 y'all my ministry is not Fox News. I can't go 0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:36.239 on there. I'm gonna lose my whole career. But some 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:38.960 of y'all can go on there with grace and clarity 0:40:39.360 --> 0:40:42.480 and conviction and fact check them and keep the host 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:44.600 from even being able to get a word in edgewise. 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:46.759 I think it's great, but he's a very I don't 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:49.520 think the vice president should go on there. I do, 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:51.480 like I know, I know. 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:58.120 He's been doing this for a long time. Yeah, for 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:00.680 a long time, and for a long time they were 0:41:00.719 --> 0:41:05.520 paired with interviewers who would would filibuster them to death 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:08.440 so that they couldn't get complete thoughts all the way in. 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:11.920 That was the power of that network. I've experienced at firsthand, 0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:14.160 where they interrupt and sort of you know, talk, you know, 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:17.080 right over you. But I do think he's particularly skilled 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:19.240 and would be skilled of that. And I'm not advocating 0:41:19.480 --> 0:41:21.279 for him to be the vice president's choice. I think I, 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:24.480 you know, opined about who I thought should get it, 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:26.600 you know, the last time we talked about this. But 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:28.560 I think he's skilled, and I do think we ought 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:30.080 to have surrogate voices on Andrew. 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.440 I want to ask you this, do you think, as 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:38.280 a former candidate, someone who successfully run multiple elections, multiple cycles, 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:44.160 do you see any any any good coming out of 0:41:44.480 --> 0:41:48.120 a candidate going on a network that is not in 0:41:48.239 --> 0:41:49.600 favor of that candidate. 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:53.359 Absolutely, I do. I mean I went places you did 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:56.759 all the time where we were not expected to show 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:59.959 up and people respected you, even if they didn't agree 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:03.120 with you, with showing up and treating them with respect 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:07.120 enough to share your opinion, your thoughts and maybe contemplate 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:10.279 their reaction and their response to it. So there's there's 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.640 no doubt. But but but I, but I, I don't 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:15.319 think we ought to get wildly optimistic in the sense 0:42:15.400 --> 0:42:18.360 that there is a whole swath in this, in this 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:24.600 era of of of Trumpia, who will suspend with with 0:42:24.880 --> 0:42:27.920 with their own belief, with their own experience, with with facts, 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:32.160 so long as it comports with with his universally described 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:34.360 knowledge of what America is. They will look at numbers 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:36.600 as say, crime is down, violent crime is down to 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:38.680 a record low. We are the most we are the 0:42:38.800 --> 0:42:43.239 largest most massive producer of oil, you know, unfortunately, of 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:46.799 in any nation in the world, and we've produced more 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:49.560 than the United States ever has in the history of 0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:51.960 the world. But they will look at that, and they'll 0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:53.920 listen to Trump say, we're gonna, you know, get our 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:56.439 mojo back and produce more oil than we ever have. Yeah, 0:42:57.200 --> 0:42:59.600 and we're gonna bring down crime because it's violent all 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:02.680 over the place. Yeah. So it's I just don't want 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:06.520 to delude us into thinking that there are whole swaths 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:09.600 of Americans to be gained here by doing this. I 0:43:09.680 --> 0:43:11.600 don't think that's the reason not to do it, because 0:43:11.640 --> 0:43:14.440 I do think in close elections, you know, we can 0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:17.120 sway some folks and maybe in the right place is 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:19.680 that one percent may make a difference. But we are, 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:22.319 by and large, I think as a society really living 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:26.640 in alternative universes. They're a venus and we're on Mars, 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:29.520 and I think there has to be some coalescing of 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:33.680 that and some recognition of truth in fact, if we're 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:35.400 gonna make any advances in it. Right now, there is 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:38.520 no recognizable truth, no recognizable fact. 0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:45.240 Do you think that resulted in tangible voters for you? Andrew? 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:46.520 Sounds like you'd think it. 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.239 Did I do because it got us closer than any 0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:51.360 other Democrat has in eighteen years running for governor of 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:55.200 the state of Florida. And I wasn't like majority of them, 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:57.160 and in most cases it didn't look like any of 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:00.719 the previous nominees. But I actually think where we do 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:03.640 best is when we go to the places that are 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:06.640 most susceptible to our message. The people who want, who 0:44:06.760 --> 0:44:10.040 really want to believe, but their life example so far 0:44:10.160 --> 0:44:12.719 hasn't hasn't given them great reason to believe, or to 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:15.839 organize or to vote, and start to give them real 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:19.440 reason to show up. It's the difference that a polster 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:24.600 makes between going after a registered voter who is a 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:28.600 Republican versus a non registered voter who, if they were registered, 0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:31.000 would vote Democratic. They're always going to go with the 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:33.719 one that's registered because it's closer to the action that 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:36.160 you want them to pursue, which is voting, rather than 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:38.640 the one who has a register and then choose to 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:41.759 show up. And what I'm suggesting is is Buddhases and 0:44:41.880 --> 0:44:45.080 others ought to make sure that they're readily and repeatedly 0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:49.359 in forums of constistuencies that want to believe that want 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:51.320 to go and do this thing, but they need the 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:54.160 extra push, the extra pool to do it well. 0:44:54.600 --> 0:44:56.680 Some would say you won that election, but that's a 0:44:56.719 --> 0:45:00.480 conversation that we always have here. Before we go to 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:03.680 a break, I want to play this listener comment because 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:07.279 they're talking about what it takes to up that GOTV game. 0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:10.120 So let's take a listen. I don't know, I don't 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:12.400 know if this person gave their name, but they're talking 0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:15.759 about battleground states in the words the Angela Nick roll 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:16.279 the right quick. 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:19.840 So I'm sitting here on the puge sound thinking about 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:24.320 anybody that can hear my voice on an idea that 0:45:24.360 --> 0:45:27.160 I think will bring out voter participation five or eight 0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:37.640 four battleground states specifically, but all in general. Artists that 0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:42.960 are from there, musicians, athletes come together at a voterfest 0:45:44.200 --> 0:45:49.360 in those areas that we need desperately to have increased 0:45:49.400 --> 0:45:55.200 voter participation, notaries on site, food trucks, the whole nine 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:58.560 those states that won't allow water across the street. Really, 0:46:00.560 --> 0:46:02.319 I think it could be a viable. 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:05.760 Answer to the problem that we face. 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:10.280 This is import tempt. 0:46:13.120 --> 0:46:17.640 That's why Angela Rah, you know where I'm at, Tiffany, 0:46:17.760 --> 0:46:19.600 we met Andrew? 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:20.160 What up? 0:46:21.760 --> 0:46:22.080 Okay? 0:46:22.239 --> 0:46:23.600 I like the block party idea. 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:26.880 What do you think Anthela just shout out to the hometown. 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:31.560 I just want to remind of the viewers that marijuana 0:46:31.680 --> 0:46:34.680 is legal in Washington State. And the vibe that he 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:35.960 was on, he had to be. 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:37.399 He was going so slow. 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:40.239 I was like, what is happening? Remember to say his name? 0:46:40.320 --> 0:46:42.480 He was like, Hey, what's that? You know where I'm at? 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:44.880 What's going on? 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:46.640 Welcome? 0:46:46.840 --> 0:46:48.800 So there's a reason he had a shades on. His 0:46:48.960 --> 0:46:52.560 eyes were sending real low. Okay, but anyway, No, I 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:56.319 really like the voter fest ideas. I think that there 0:46:56.360 --> 0:47:00.480 are friends of ours that run these kinds of events. Andrew, 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:03.239 you certainly ran them on your campaign. Natasha Brown does. 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:06.200 Them all them together, love the time Black. 0:47:06.000 --> 0:47:08.720 Parties they do it with local organizations on the ground 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:11.880 and what do I call black battleground areas that are 0:47:12.120 --> 0:47:15.719 just as significant to us as battleground states. I also 0:47:15.840 --> 0:47:19.279 think Collective Pack is doing some of that work. And 0:47:20.160 --> 0:47:23.000 what's the other one? There's another anyway, there are a 0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:25.719 bunch Black Pack higher Heights, there are a bunch. 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:27.200 And so I do such a project. 0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:30.279 Yes, thanks, Tiff, I'm sure Andrew got something you can 0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:32.239 name too. There are a lot of entities that do 0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:35.520 this work. So I love the idea. My friend and 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:38.600 Puget sound next time, I hope you give us your name, 0:47:38.840 --> 0:47:42.520 and I would encourage you to travel down south and 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:45.239 catch our friends doing some of this work all the time. 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:46.920 And yeah, maybe we can have one here. 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:50.520 Obviously the music piece is the influence of celebrity. All 0:47:50.600 --> 0:47:53.520 there very important, certainly techniques that we tried in our 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:57.200 campaign to stimulate vote voter turnout, but it can none 0:47:57.280 --> 0:48:00.520 of that, just to put it plainly, can replace what 0:48:00.719 --> 0:48:05.120 it means for you. The individual you brother on Future 0:48:05.239 --> 0:48:09.440 Sound going to five other people who you know motivate, 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:12.959 registering them and then moving them to the ballot box. 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:17.000 There's no influence on planet Earth as powerful as the 0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:21.279 personal network of you to your five friends, ten friends, 0:48:21.360 --> 0:48:23.120 whomever it is that you choose to influence. And that's 0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:26.040 why we've been trying to really sharpen and harp on 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.680 this message of a ride with five you and five others. 0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:32.680 Make that the team that you're responsible for, and I 0:48:32.840 --> 0:48:36.319 promise you will see the results if all of us 0:48:36.320 --> 0:48:37.440 committed to do just that far. 0:48:37.600 --> 0:48:39.799 I love all those ideas, but in the meantime, keep 0:48:39.880 --> 0:48:42.439 enjoying those trees. If that's what you were in fact doing. 0:48:42.800 --> 0:48:44.480 All right, we gotta take a quick break. We'll be 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:44.879 right back. 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:50.839 Come. 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:52.720 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:48:57.840 --> 0:48:59.920 What's that family? My name is Michael. I'm a nineteen 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:02.560 year old college students studying political science at the university 0:49:02.600 --> 0:49:05.320 in the Metro Atlantic area. I have followed all of 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:07.680 you for many years, since I was in middle school actually, 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:10.719 and throughout all of you all's trials and tribulations, it 0:49:10.800 --> 0:49:14.000 has only continue to inspire me to keep going, to 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:17.360 keep fighting, continue to speak up for marginalized groups in 0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:21.279 our country. And for that I can never say thank 0:49:21.320 --> 0:49:23.759 you enough. But right now I'm at a crossroad. So 0:49:23.880 --> 0:49:26.320 the question is who do I need to be reaching 0:49:26.320 --> 0:49:28.480 out to at the local, state, and federal levels to 0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:32.080 join the fight. What do I need to be asking 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:37.279 them at these levels to constantly be providing folks with 0:49:37.360 --> 0:49:40.520 true information instead of misinformation so that way they can 0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:44.480 make the best decision for themselves. In this country come 0:49:44.880 --> 0:49:48.880 November twenty twenty four, it is not common for me 0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:50.879 to find young people who are willing to speak out 0:49:50.920 --> 0:49:54.640 and represent for most of the younger community. But I 0:49:54.880 --> 0:49:57.080 also am trying to figure out where to start because 0:49:57.200 --> 0:49:59.800 I'm still a novice and to feel, quite frankly, but 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:03.120 that that's not going to silence me. It's not going 0:50:03.160 --> 0:50:05.160 to stop me, it won't break me. I will not 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:10.360 become complacent. Thanks in advance for you all support and 0:50:10.440 --> 0:50:11.399 your guidance. Love y'all. 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:15.359 Welcome home, Michael, I love this so much. 0:50:15.480 --> 0:50:15.640 Well. 0:50:15.760 --> 0:50:19.120 First of all, that letter that Rafael Warnock wrote to 0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:22.640 his daughter, I think that there's some inspiration in there 0:50:22.719 --> 0:50:25.480 for you too. I am thrilled that you are this 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:32.040 involved in the process. Tiff is atl fam and Andrew 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:34.799 is close enough, so I think they should definitely weigh 0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:36.680 in here, but I just got a little shameless plug 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:39.640 real quick. I have a professional development program where we 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:44.760 spend time on developing the activism muscles of young black folks. 0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:47.839 I hope that you will continue consider joining that because 0:50:47.880 --> 0:50:49.440 I think you'll find a lot of folks who are 0:50:49.719 --> 0:50:53.000 like minded. Michael, and thank you for following us. Since 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:55.120 you were a small tot. It makes us feel old, 0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:56.200 but we're glad you're young. 0:50:58.560 --> 0:50:59.800 There's a place he should go. 0:51:00.880 --> 0:51:03.520 Oh yeah, it's always up on the applications open up 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:08.320 and it's on my Instagram, Okay, at Angela. 0:51:08.000 --> 0:51:12.759 Rai cohort, and they are quite impressive, so I love it. 0:51:13.280 --> 0:51:16.480 It's was it Michael, Yes, Michael, Yeah. 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:19.160 It was his name. Okay, Michael one. We are exceedingly 0:51:19.200 --> 0:51:23.240 proud of you, brother. And what I love about Angela's 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:26.320 Fellowship is, yes, it is a place to plug in. 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:30.880 But the truth is is sometimes our leaders need leaders, 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:34.480 and our leaders need inspiration. And when you get yourself 0:51:34.560 --> 0:51:37.680 in common company with people who are trying to impact 0:51:37.719 --> 0:51:39.560 and make the same change that you're trying to make, 0:51:39.640 --> 0:51:43.000 you'll find that it's much more difficult for you to 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:46.879 feel downtrodden alone. Feeling like you want to check out, 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:49.520 or any of those other things that you you've already 0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:54.080 committed to not enduring. But by and by those feelings 0:51:54.120 --> 0:51:56.480 do tend to creep up. And so when you have 0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:59.480 a way to plug in, and I think Angela's Fellowship 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:05.600 offers a great option for it, please please police supply. Lastly, 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:08.080 I don't think any of us wake up trying to 0:52:08.120 --> 0:52:11.320 make history any day of the week. I certainly didn't. 0:52:11.640 --> 0:52:13.480 I can't recall if I ever had a day where 0:52:13.520 --> 0:52:15.759 I woke up saying I'm gonna my goal is to 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:19.200 make history. I was always steered toward making some kind 0:52:19.239 --> 0:52:22.759 of impact, some kind of change about something that I 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:26.399 thought was not right, usually something that interacted my personal life. 0:52:26.840 --> 0:52:30.560 And so don't feel like you're not playing on the 0:52:30.600 --> 0:52:33.759 big boy or big girl feel because you know you're 0:52:33.800 --> 0:52:38.479 not creating laws or writing constitutions every day. That little 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:40.640 thing that you think maybe little may be the one 0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:44.160 thing that catapults your next work into the stratosphere and 0:52:44.280 --> 0:52:47.719 recruits hundreds of thousands of people toward it. So so 0:52:48.120 --> 0:52:50.960 so act where you are. I mean, I promise you'll 0:52:50.960 --> 0:52:52.520 get you where you want to go. I wish you 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:53.399 you know I wish you well. 0:52:53.600 --> 0:52:59.320 So if you're looking for specific people to join in Atlanta, 0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:02.520 I have to say, first and foremost Latasha Brown, our 0:53:02.600 --> 0:53:05.919 good sister, Latasha Brown. She runs an organization, Black Voters Matter. 0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:09.879 I have never seen someone so committed to the call, 0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:13.080 so committed to the people. She has an extraordinary team, 0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:16.000 an extraordinary ground game, and she is plugged in with 0:53:16.239 --> 0:53:19.000 all of the organizations not only in Georgia but all 0:53:19.040 --> 0:53:22.040 across the country. They issue grants. So I would DM 0:53:22.360 --> 0:53:25.480 Black Voters Matter, or you could DM Latasha Brown herself. 0:53:25.560 --> 0:53:28.960 She's on social media Instagram, Twitter, But shoot her a 0:53:29.040 --> 0:53:31.839 DM and and somebody on her team. We'll get back 0:53:32.280 --> 0:53:34.440 back to you. We can flag it for her, so 0:53:34.600 --> 0:53:38.680 she'll be looking for your correspondence. But yeah, they are 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:42.279 to me, just top notch, the with the purest intentions, 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:46.239 and she just has like the soul of black folk 0:53:46.760 --> 0:53:50.040 in her heart. So that's my always go to starting point, 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:53.319 not just for you, but for anybody looking to get 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:58.800 in this fight. We have one more viewer question. Do 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:00.160 we have time to get to that? Are y'all up 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:05.720 for another one? Okay, So this one I think is Craig, 0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:08.399 you ain't got to lie, Craig, what you got to say. 0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:10.880 Hey, guys, this is Craig Knight coming out of Brooklyn, 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:15.200 New York, and I'm on a podcast called the Six 0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:18.480 Degrees Podcast, and I just like to say, we're very 0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:22.520 inspired by what you do. So just in the spirit 0:54:22.600 --> 0:54:25.279 of that, just like you, guys have conversations outside of 0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:28.560 the podcast, so do we. One of my friends and 0:54:28.640 --> 0:54:30.480 I on the podcast, her name is Charlene. 0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:31.960 She thinks that. 0:54:34.120 --> 0:54:37.000 One of the reasons why the two party system, in 0:54:37.080 --> 0:54:40.480 her view, is impotent is because of what she calls 0:54:40.680 --> 0:54:45.759 white control trauma and white people's desire on the blue 0:54:45.800 --> 0:54:49.200 side and both the red and the blue side, because 0:54:49.200 --> 0:54:52.200 of their desire to control, has pretty much made. 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:55.960 Voting sort of a non. 0:54:56.120 --> 0:55:00.160 Starter or non issue for black people because at the 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:01.600 end of the day, they're always going to try to 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:03.920 one control. So that's pretty much her theory on it. 0:55:03.960 --> 0:55:05.680 I'm not sure if I agree with it, but as 0:55:05.719 --> 0:55:08.480 you do, you disagree, we do too. Just want to 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:09.400 get your thoughts on that. 0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:10.800 Also. 0:55:11.600 --> 0:55:13.480 One of the things that we do agree on as 0:55:13.520 --> 0:55:17.320 a panel, there's four of us. We also think that 0:55:18.480 --> 0:55:22.400 white voters on the red side, which is most of them, 0:55:23.920 --> 0:55:27.000 think that they have some kind of skin in the 0:55:27.080 --> 0:55:29.360 game if they vote for someone like Trump. But we 0:55:29.520 --> 0:55:30.920 think that the only skin that they have in the 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:35.400 game is skin. So want to get your thoughts on 0:55:35.480 --> 0:55:35.759 that too. 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:39.200 I like that question. Yeah, I think if you listen 0:55:39.200 --> 0:55:41.759 to this podcast, you know how we all feel. One 0:55:41.840 --> 0:55:43.520 thing that I have to say that really bothers me 0:55:43.640 --> 0:55:45.600 is when people are like, oh, y'all have some Democratic shields, 0:55:45.640 --> 0:55:47.920 and y'all, you know, regurgitating talking points and let me 0:55:48.000 --> 0:55:49.880 just say, the devil is a lie. Okay. None of 0:55:49.960 --> 0:55:52.120 us on here is trying to be a talking head 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:55.080 for the Democratic Party. The party don't ask me for nothing, okay, 0:55:55.640 --> 0:55:58.400 and I certainly don't offer anything. We are always focused 0:55:58.440 --> 0:56:00.440 on harm reduction to our pe people. If we're a 0:56:00.480 --> 0:56:03.560 member of any party, it is the Black People's Liberation Party, 0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:09.840 because we want to see ourselves function and thrive safely 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:13.080 in this country. And I think you know our mission, 0:56:13.120 --> 0:56:16.200 our collective mission, but certainly my personal mission that I've 0:56:16.200 --> 0:56:19.080 talked about is for the equality and liberation of black 0:56:19.120 --> 0:56:21.239 people and all people of color. And the unique thing 0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:25.520 about that is when that happens, everyone benefits. Now, when 0:56:25.600 --> 0:56:29.000 it comes to the white population, in this country, there 0:56:29.080 --> 0:56:31.920 are outside of people under you know, the working class 0:56:32.120 --> 0:56:35.200 white people and poor white people are certainly impacted by 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:40.160 the same adverse policies in which we're impacted. But it's 0:56:40.239 --> 0:56:42.399 not a bad time to be a white person ever, 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:45.680 So there is some truth to that. You know, it 0:56:45.960 --> 0:56:50.200 doesn't matter if it's a Republican administration or democratic administration. Previously, 0:56:50.920 --> 0:56:53.800 for a certain level of white person in this country, 0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:59.319 a college educated man, white man is not really impacted. Well, well, 0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:03.560 this proportionately the rest of society is. And so that's 0:57:03.560 --> 0:57:05.359 why I think sometimes you see on these cable news 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:07.239 panels people are laughing and joking, and you go in 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:09.600 the green room and everybody's laughing and talking. It's like 0:57:09.680 --> 0:57:12.440 if you just got off air saying something truly abhorrent 0:57:13.160 --> 0:57:15.759 and supporting Donald Trump, for example, I'm not key kiing 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:17.880 and hahn with you in the green room, like you 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:20.560 are the enemy of the people. And so it's not 0:57:20.640 --> 0:57:22.480 a game to us, it's not a sports as we're 0:57:22.520 --> 0:57:25.640 literally fighting for survival. So yes, this two party system 0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:28.920 is harmful to us. We did a whole podcast on 0:57:29.080 --> 0:57:33.000 third party candidates. I encourage you to have your friend 0:57:33.280 --> 0:57:36.960 watch that because we talk about how third parties could 0:57:37.000 --> 0:57:40.960 be impactful in this election. We're riding with Vice President Harris, 0:57:41.720 --> 0:57:43.920 but the third parties can certainly have an impact at 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:46.640 the state and local level and eventually perhaps on the 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:48.720 federal level as well. Y'all got anything on that. 0:57:50.400 --> 0:57:54.880 I just have a couple of notes. My suggestion as 0:57:54.920 --> 0:57:59.080 a fellow podcaster to my good friend Craig is don't 0:57:59.120 --> 0:58:01.560 put the light behind you you Unyes, you're going for 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:06.480 a mystery feel. And since we tell everybody welcome home, 0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:07.720 I got to talk to him like family. 0:58:07.760 --> 0:58:09.640 I would tell you guys that, yeah, thank you, and 0:58:11.080 --> 0:58:11.760 no backlighting. 0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:15.720 Yeah, don't backlight unless you're given a mysterious vibe and. 0:58:16.720 --> 0:58:19.280 Which which totally could have been your mission, I could 0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:19.880 have been his mission. 0:58:19.960 --> 0:58:22.240 But I just, I'm just it's just a suggestion. I 0:58:22.440 --> 0:58:22.640 like it. 0:58:23.800 --> 0:58:27.040 Shout out to six degrees podcast, though, and I'm glad 0:58:27.120 --> 0:58:29.920 y'all are talking to each other, to friends and recruiting 0:58:30.000 --> 0:58:33.880 new listeners in the your sphere. Y'all know where I 0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:36.919 am on this, which is power power power. Power acts 0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:40.160 to protect power, power acts to maintain power, and people 0:58:40.280 --> 0:58:42.040 act in ways if they don't feel like they have 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:45.360 the power they act in ways that get the most 0:58:45.400 --> 0:58:49.520 approximate to the power. And I think that's all people, 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:52.120 and I think that's what we see happening in our 0:58:52.160 --> 0:58:55.040 political system. As one of my friends used to say, 0:58:55.080 --> 0:58:57.040 who was running for office wasn't a friend, was a 0:58:57.080 --> 0:58:59.800 colleague at the time. I'm not looking for everybody to vote. 0:58:59.840 --> 0:59:01.640 I'm looking for those who are voting for me to vote. 0:59:01.920 --> 0:59:04.000 And I think that's by and large how people who 0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:06.600 are running and maintaining office of thinking is. I don't 0:59:06.720 --> 0:59:09.080 I'm not trying to turn out an unknown. I'm not 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:12.240 out here organizing just anybody. I'm organizing the people who 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:14.840 I believe if they show up, they'll keep me in power. 0:59:16.560 --> 0:59:19.680 And you're voting for them because you're you're believing that 0:59:19.800 --> 0:59:22.080 you are approximate to the power, which means if they 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:25.000 look out for themselves, then the next layer they're gonna 0:59:25.000 --> 0:59:27.640 look out for is you. And I get that, and 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:29.439 I think that that's what has the other side most 0:59:29.480 --> 0:59:34.520 afraid that they will lose some closeness, some approximation to power, 0:59:34.800 --> 0:59:36.040 and then they won't have given the. 0:59:36.040 --> 0:59:39.040 Whole idea though about like you know, white control, I 0:59:39.160 --> 0:59:41.720 think Angela brought up something earlier about like going on 0:59:41.920 --> 0:59:45.479 Fox and how you know she might not be able 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:49.840 to control her responses to them on Fox, and there 0:59:49.960 --> 0:59:51.800 is you know, some level to that I think I 0:59:51.880 --> 0:59:54.920 could handle Fox. I could you know, articulate an argument 0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:57.400 and debunk the ridiculous they say. But I do wonder 0:59:57.480 --> 1:00:01.560 sometimes she's these videos that go viral. People confronting you 1:00:01.800 --> 1:00:03.400 like that is the time, because you have to make 1:00:03.400 --> 1:00:06.240 a split second decision on how you're going to handle yourself. 1:00:06.320 --> 1:00:08.760 And one, you know, if if a white person is 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:11.240 approaching you aggressively and you feel unsafe, and you feel 1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:14.040 threatened because they're in your space, you either have to 1:00:14.320 --> 1:00:17.160 decide to be dismissive. So if law enforcement shows up, 1:00:17.160 --> 1:00:19.440 they're gonna see this calm black woman sitting across from 1:00:19.480 --> 1:00:23.280 this irate, crazy white woman, or you have to immediately 1:00:23.360 --> 1:00:26.280 go spider monkey and let them know I ain't the one. 1:00:26.440 --> 1:00:32.360 And you pick the right one today. So we are 1:00:32.440 --> 1:00:34.560 going to revisit. 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:38.080 Oh my god, Andrew, I was just thinking the same 1:00:38.160 --> 1:00:40.520 thing I was gonna say. Ray Charles said it because 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:41.480 you got. 1:00:41.360 --> 1:00:46.720 The right one. An important moment in black history. I 1:00:46.800 --> 1:00:48.960 want you to take a listen to the sound and 1:00:49.520 --> 1:00:50.560 you may remember. 1:00:50.240 --> 1:00:55.920 It, t. 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:04.000 Rest, I'm still in moving boat. 1:01:04.920 --> 1:01:05.280 Moo. 1:01:06.360 --> 1:01:09.720 I just want to flag for the listeners, not the 1:01:09.840 --> 1:01:13.920 viewers that win. Sis says, get out there, young bucks. 1:01:13.960 --> 1:01:16.160 She was talking to the brother that jumped off the 1:01:16.200 --> 1:01:20.400 boat and like ram to help his colleague while he 1:01:20.600 --> 1:01:22.480 was about to throw them things. Y'all knew it was 1:01:22.520 --> 1:01:25.600 going down when he took that shirt off and was like, 1:01:25.760 --> 1:01:26.840 forget it on my money. 1:01:26.920 --> 1:01:30.200 I might alway Anniverse three you guys. One year ago 1:01:30.440 --> 1:01:34.520 on August fifth, twenty twenty three, the infamous or famous, 1:01:34.560 --> 1:01:37.000 depending on how you look at it, Montgomery Boat Brawl 1:01:37.120 --> 1:01:40.920 went down. We have dubbed it a holiday August teenth, 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:44.480 and that was a revisited audio and I have watched that. 1:01:44.720 --> 1:01:47.560 I could reenact the whole thing. Probably. I've watched that 1:01:47.680 --> 1:01:50.600 tape about thirty times when I'm frustrated. I watched that tape. 1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:53.800 It was such a moment of unity amongst us. 1:01:54.080 --> 1:01:55.920 Collective yes impact, Yes. 1:01:55.880 --> 1:01:59.120 It was a collective impact. And I really think that's 1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:01.520 how we have to move as a community. You mess 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:04.200 with one, you mess with all. I don't care if 1:02:04.200 --> 1:02:06.400 I don't know you. If I see something going down, 1:02:06.440 --> 1:02:08.520 I'm coming over my phone ready, to hear what happened 1:02:08.640 --> 1:02:10.840 with everything? Okay over here? I think people have to 1:02:10.920 --> 1:02:13.200 know because you only see white people act like that 1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:18.480 when they are not outnumbered. Then it's real gully. But 1:02:18.600 --> 1:02:20.520 if they know, I can't go over here and start 1:02:20.560 --> 1:02:23.240 messing with this little boy because every black mama around 1:02:23.360 --> 1:02:24.919 is gonna come over here and make sure this child 1:02:25.040 --> 1:02:27.120 is okay. Or I can't go over here messing with 1:02:27.240 --> 1:02:29.440 this girl or call her out her name or harass 1:02:29.560 --> 1:02:32.120 her because I know every black person around is gonna 1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:34.840 come and make sure she's okay. That is the superpower 1:02:34.960 --> 1:02:38.040 of our community. So I know a lot of jokes, 1:02:38.080 --> 1:02:40.240 a lot of memes and all that was made around 1:02:40.320 --> 1:02:45.160 this video. It was worthy. Some of those voiceovers I 1:02:45.320 --> 1:02:47.920 still I steal. I hope y'all want to take a 1:02:47.960 --> 1:02:50.360 little time and watch it and celebrate. What do we 1:02:50.400 --> 1:02:52.480 guys go to work on August fifth? Because anybody knows that? 1:02:52.840 --> 1:02:55.680 Okay, oh no, But it is worth saying that it 1:02:55.840 --> 1:02:59.280 was the young black kid who was aggressed upon by 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:04.600 a fool grown adult boat of of older white folks 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:08.520 who had been drinking clearly and basically disrespected jumped on. 1:03:09.120 --> 1:03:11.680 He was a grown man. He was the guy, the 1:03:11.840 --> 1:03:14.440 young guy jump you have my black aquaman. 1:03:15.520 --> 1:03:17.320 Yeah, there was there was that one, But there were 1:03:17.360 --> 1:03:20.040 the two young people who and they were all they 1:03:20.040 --> 1:03:22.440 were still younger in comparison to this group. 1:03:22.360 --> 1:03:24.600 Of both establed. 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:29.920 Well there's that allegedly allegedly, but but it was, it 1:03:30.120 --> 1:03:34.480 was it was the victims here on original cause were 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:38.240 these these two young black men or these two uh 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:42.520 workers who apparently weren't moving quick enough, weren't reacting quick 1:03:42.600 --> 1:03:44.480 enough to the to the drunk voters. 1:03:44.880 --> 1:03:49.160 And it was the voters took the park the parking 1:03:49.840 --> 1:03:50.320 was young. 1:03:50.680 --> 1:03:53.800 They were trying to they were they they were they 1:03:53.840 --> 1:03:56.520 were accusing these uh, the two black men of not 1:03:56.680 --> 1:04:00.360 responding quick enough. They weren't hastening quick enough to to. 1:04:03.480 --> 1:04:06.320 Bochearity guard was telling them, please move your boat because 1:04:06.360 --> 1:04:09.360 the Harriet, yes the boat was actually called the Harriet 1:04:09.760 --> 1:04:14.320 was coming in. White voters had the inebriated white voters 1:04:14.360 --> 1:04:16.600 had their boat there, and the security guard was trying 1:04:16.600 --> 1:04:18.880 to explain to them, you need to move your boat. 1:04:19.360 --> 1:04:22.760 And they were being very aggressive with him and surrounding him, 1:04:22.920 --> 1:04:25.080 and he maintained his cool for as long as he could, 1:04:25.120 --> 1:04:27.960 and they got physical, and that is when he threw 1:04:28.040 --> 1:04:30.840 the black hat, which is now the national symbol for 1:04:31.000 --> 1:04:34.240 a black person. He took it off, and people saw 1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:39.160 the bat signal, and then black aquaman descended from the sea, 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:44.360 and the nation of domination descended from the land, and 1:04:44.720 --> 1:04:49.919 it became a melee and lessons were learned, I hope, 1:04:51.000 --> 1:04:53.200 and they got dealt with. But listen, I will say 1:04:53.280 --> 1:04:56.640 this on a serious note. Had they been armed, this 1:04:56.760 --> 1:05:00.560 would have been a horrific situation. Had their not been 1:05:00.640 --> 1:05:04.080 people in place to bear witness to this with video cameras, 1:05:04.320 --> 1:05:07.560 we would have seen the impacts of the criminal justice 1:05:07.840 --> 1:05:12.880 justice system. Uh possibly arrest these people for simply defending themselves. 1:05:13.240 --> 1:05:15.120 Had heard a different narratives right. 1:05:15.080 --> 1:05:18.320 Exactly, or heard a different narrative had that young boy 1:05:18.480 --> 1:05:20.920 not been fit enough to get in that water and 1:05:21.000 --> 1:05:23.720 swim across and get himself off. Our health matters too. 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:26.960 He was fit enough and he was ready to address it. 1:05:27.280 --> 1:05:29.520 And I just think, you know, the universe sends you 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:32.000 lessons until you learn them, and I think that was 1:05:32.040 --> 1:05:36.800 an appropriate lesson to be learnt with the tuh. 1:05:36.120 --> 1:05:39.720 You learn today today. So I tell you, guys, what 1:05:40.080 --> 1:05:42.680 news I was about to say. If I go on 1:05:42.840 --> 1:05:46.360 Fox News on the anniversary of August teenth. I'm straight. 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:47.480 I can do that. 1:05:48.160 --> 1:05:50.880 I can do that one. But just know I'm coming 1:05:51.000 --> 1:05:54.800 with the Mississippi Mass Choir group of Negroes. Be it's 1:05:54.840 --> 1:05:59.160 gonna go down on live air. If y'all go left, 1:05:59.440 --> 1:06:01.800 know that I'm not gonna people to judge, y'all. I'm 1:06:01.800 --> 1:06:05.000 throwing up that black hat. It's going down live entertainment, 1:06:05.520 --> 1:06:07.840 live entertainment, not even pay per view. 1:06:07.760 --> 1:06:08.400 Free for you. 1:06:08.960 --> 1:06:11.880 Just know August teenth, y'all invite me on. That's what 1:06:11.920 --> 1:06:14.640 we're doing from the land. And Andrew is shaking his head. 1:06:14.640 --> 1:06:17.560 He's so disappointed. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, brother. Normally I'm 1:06:17.680 --> 1:06:19.960 a perfection kid with you, but I just felt like 1:06:20.040 --> 1:06:22.200 it would be really fun and it would be pay 1:06:22.280 --> 1:06:23.600 back from the ancestors I. 1:06:23.680 --> 1:06:24.800 Want the can't. 1:06:25.440 --> 1:06:28.640 Violence is always the answer, and we're. 1:06:28.520 --> 1:06:30.880 Not even leading with violence. We're just saying no that 1:06:31.000 --> 1:06:31.560 it's an option. 1:06:31.800 --> 1:06:33.600 It self defense. 1:06:33.880 --> 1:06:36.920 It's self defense, you know, you know what speaking of 1:06:37.600 --> 1:06:39.280 I know we're over, but I just want to say 1:06:39.360 --> 1:06:41.400 one thing, and I'm just going to say it vague here. 1:06:43.120 --> 1:06:49.120 If you are going to offend our historic likely president 1:06:49.800 --> 1:06:53.400 by saying things that are not accurate, and then telling 1:06:53.520 --> 1:06:58.080 stories about situations with said presidential candidate that you know 1:06:58.240 --> 1:07:01.680 never happened because you're a to social media. That is 1:07:01.720 --> 1:07:03.760 also violence, and I would like for you to calm 1:07:03.840 --> 1:07:06.360 it down and to not lie on our people because 1:07:06.440 --> 1:07:08.720 August teenth is coming up. The least you can do 1:07:09.440 --> 1:07:12.240 is fact check your answers, make sure that you're not 1:07:12.360 --> 1:07:14.440 here making up things out of thin air. It's not 1:07:14.520 --> 1:07:17.400 a good idea, and just try to keep the peace 1:07:17.560 --> 1:07:19.920 with facts that is really important. In fact, tip I 1:07:19.960 --> 1:07:21.680 didn't even mean too, but that's my call to action 1:07:21.800 --> 1:07:24.080 for this week. Stop lying on Kamala hairs is my 1:07:24.160 --> 1:07:27.200 call to action this week. If you black, especially, don't 1:07:27.280 --> 1:07:30.720 lie Kamala Harris this week in commemoration of August teenth, 1:07:31.200 --> 1:07:33.400 I would like for you to stop, period, but please stop. 1:07:33.480 --> 1:07:35.680 If you got a platform, you know who you are. 1:07:35.840 --> 1:07:37.840 If you've got a platform, stop them lies. It's not 1:07:37.960 --> 1:07:39.520 cute on you Booth, stop them lies. 1:07:40.520 --> 1:07:45.640 Man, watch your mouth, don Apollo, Apollo, watch your mouth. 1:07:46.280 --> 1:07:48.240 I would echo that would be my call to action too, 1:07:49.040 --> 1:07:51.960 but not only to people who are addicted to attention, 1:07:52.600 --> 1:07:55.520 be it good or bad, for telling these narratives on 1:07:55.800 --> 1:08:00.640 social media. I pray for your wellness and for anybody 1:08:00.680 --> 1:08:03.400 out there, I pray for your wellness with that kind 1:08:03.400 --> 1:08:06.640 of narcissistic behavior. But my call to action would be 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:11.520 to people who follow people who don't apollo, you know, 1:08:11.680 --> 1:08:18.160 people who follow people who spread misinformation, share responsibly, you know, 1:08:18.880 --> 1:08:22.439 either unfollow or don't share those things, or challenge the person. 1:08:22.880 --> 1:08:25.720 But don't assume because someone has a platform and they 1:08:25.760 --> 1:08:29.920 say this thing happened, that it's true. Don't assume that 1:08:30.080 --> 1:08:34.080 what they're saying because they you know, can can correctly, 1:08:35.000 --> 1:08:39.280 you know, get a conjugated verb that they are smart. 1:08:40.960 --> 1:08:45.000 There there's more to intellect and intelligence to going viral. 1:08:46.240 --> 1:08:50.240 I would argue that typically fools would rather go viral. 1:08:50.360 --> 1:08:52.640 The intelligent sometimes know how to shut the you know 1:08:52.760 --> 1:08:54.920 what up. So share responsibly. 1:08:54.960 --> 1:08:55.120 Guys. 1:08:55.160 --> 1:08:57.760 It's gonna be a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there, 1:08:58.080 --> 1:09:00.400 So just watch who you follow, and watch who's stories 1:09:00.439 --> 1:09:02.599 you believe, andrew what you want for us. 1:09:02.960 --> 1:09:05.360 And concert with y'all. I would just say, I know, 1:09:05.760 --> 1:09:08.719 we're feeling really euphoric a lot of the community about 1:09:09.640 --> 1:09:15.080 Kamala Harris's ascension to almost democratic nominee for presidents soon 1:09:15.160 --> 1:09:18.679 to be. I would say the other side hasn't kept 1:09:18.760 --> 1:09:21.719 the race for president as close as they have because 1:09:21.760 --> 1:09:25.799 they have great candidates. They've kept it this close because 1:09:26.880 --> 1:09:28.880 in the case of Kamala Harris, when there is not 1:09:29.160 --> 1:09:33.400 a salient enough attack on her based off the facts, 1:09:33.640 --> 1:09:38.760 they go gutter, and unfortunately gutter still sometimes wins out. 1:09:38.840 --> 1:09:43.120 It certainly captures opinion and imagination. And so just know 1:09:43.680 --> 1:09:47.519 that we have to be ready every single day between 1:09:47.640 --> 1:09:50.280 now an election day to go to the hilt for 1:09:50.400 --> 1:09:54.360 what it is that we believe, and strong and unapologetic 1:09:54.439 --> 1:09:58.760 defense of the candidate that we support, because they may 1:09:58.880 --> 1:10:03.680 look like chaos, but it should terrify you because when 1:10:03.720 --> 1:10:07.920 they lose on legitimate grounds, they're legitimate grounds of fighting, 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:12.000 they go to the illegitimate and those tools they have 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:16.759 spent centuries sharpening. And so let's not go to sleep 1:10:16.840 --> 1:10:19.840 on this thing. This race is nowhere near the end, 1:10:20.000 --> 1:10:23.880 and it will change generation to generation day by day 1:10:25.040 --> 1:10:27.800 until we get to election day. Power doesn't see it 1:10:27.840 --> 1:10:31.799 anything easily, and it certainly doesn't see it without a demand, 1:10:31.880 --> 1:10:34.160 and we're making a demand right now, and it's going 1:10:34.240 --> 1:10:38.439 to stretch people, and particularly the other side beyond its limits. 1:10:38.520 --> 1:10:40.800 Is my fear, which is why we have to We 1:10:40.920 --> 1:10:41.919 have to stay ready. 1:10:42.040 --> 1:10:44.639 Stay ready, so you ain't got to get ready. Can 1:10:44.680 --> 1:10:47.639 I just tell you guys one last thing. Yes, please watch, 1:10:47.800 --> 1:10:51.880 I'm lifting my eyebrows. I'm flaring my nostrils. So you 1:10:52.000 --> 1:10:53.000 notice anything different? 1:10:53.880 --> 1:10:55.799 What your glasses? 1:10:56.760 --> 1:10:59.000 No, you don't see my fore hair wrinkles are gone. 1:10:59.000 --> 1:10:59.759 I got botox. 1:11:00.640 --> 1:11:02.360 Oh well we should have been. 1:11:02.400 --> 1:11:03.920 We should have you. 1:11:06.800 --> 1:11:11.519 Know, well, how did it does it? 1:11:12.200 --> 1:11:12.720 What does it do? 1:11:13.080 --> 1:11:15.160 But I'm frustrated because I told him I'm known for 1:11:15.280 --> 1:11:17.320 my Yeah, I didn't get it done. I literally got 1:11:17.360 --> 1:11:19.840 it where my foreheadlines are. But I told him I 1:11:20.080 --> 1:11:23.320 need to make facial expressions. I'm known for facial expressions. 1:11:23.320 --> 1:11:27.280 But I can't look and you say something to me. Man, 1:11:27.400 --> 1:11:28.519 Lets see how she looks. 1:11:35.040 --> 1:11:35.519 Straining? 1:11:39.720 --> 1:11:45.519 Casey, Wow your movement. You look gorgeous? All this okay? 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:51.760 No they're moving. Look, yes they are, no movement. I 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:52.759 don't see no movement. 1:11:53.080 --> 1:11:54.040 Be pretty steady. 1:11:54.320 --> 1:11:57.360 All it's gonna wear off in six months. But I'm 1:11:57.360 --> 1:11:59.120 going to get somewhere just less. I was like, I 1:11:59.320 --> 1:12:01.920 need to I'm known for facial expressions. 1:12:02.280 --> 1:12:04.400 Well, everybody's gonna know when I get it because all 1:12:04.439 --> 1:12:05.479 them wrinkles that show up. 1:12:05.560 --> 1:12:08.200 Andrew, you look handsome. Angel I want to let y'all 1:12:08.280 --> 1:12:11.080 know Andrew looks handsome we are when we were together 1:12:11.080 --> 1:12:12.920 in person. I even tell him like, Andrew looks so good. 1:12:13.160 --> 1:12:17.960 I was just with Angela on a beach where Angela 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:21.880 and nobody's wearing any makeup. Angela looks super gorgeous. We 1:12:21.960 --> 1:12:24.719 were on a yacht. She didn't want to take pictures, 1:12:24.800 --> 1:12:26.479 and I'm like, no, stand up there on the and 1:12:26.520 --> 1:12:29.400 take pictures. Oh, that's because I need to lose, and 1:12:29.479 --> 1:12:31.400 she's only thing that she needs to lose. And when 1:12:31.400 --> 1:12:34.479 I say she got a tiny, little size zero looking body, 1:12:34.479 --> 1:12:35.800 I don't know what size that actually is, but it 1:12:35.880 --> 1:12:38.880 looked like a zero. So y'all are both some good 1:12:38.960 --> 1:12:41.439 looking people away. 1:12:41.479 --> 1:12:43.560 We appreciate you. 1:12:43.640 --> 1:12:46.559 Guys know Tip took pictures. They're gonna be out Freaking 1:12:46.640 --> 1:12:51.040 Lily after Freaking Lily. Stay tuned, all right. 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