WEBVTT - QLS Classic: Angela Rye 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.240 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:09.640 episode was produced by the team at Pandora. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:14.560 Welcome to QLs Classic. My name is Quest Love, your host. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.800 This particular episode of Quest Love Supreme is from twenty seventeen. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.760 We did this on July twelfth. We got to speak 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:25.680 to Angela Rye. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.920 I mean, oftentimes we only get to see these micro 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:34.360 clips of her social media as a talking head for 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.680 CNN or maybe SNBC. But you know, she's a she's family, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.920 she's friend of the show. And during this time period, 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.760 of course, we were like one year into that administration, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.800 trying to figure out how to get our way out 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:49.080 of it. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.839 But a lot of this stuff is timely, as far 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.640 as her entry into I guess being an freedom fighter. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.080 If you will, so hope you enjoyed this episode. Angela. Right, well, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.280 let's classic. Let's go. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:17.440 Suprema son Supremo, role called Supremo, Supremo, role called supremo, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.280 some some supremo, role called Supremo. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:29.479 He's really into Angelo Rise playlist Yeah, yeah, Chris loves playlist. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:39.160 Yeah, Supreme Supremo, Supremo, some some Supremo. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.800 My name is fante. Yeah, I get the props. Yeah, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.240 Angela's from Seattle. 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Yeah. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.080 So yeah that's best for all. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:43.359 Roll cal Supremo, so Supreme roll call Suprema some Supremo role. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.799 Oh yeah, it's time yeah for Angelo rhyme. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:47.600 Yeah. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:48.919 Some try to fight it. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.880 Yeah, well she won't be to die. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.680 Come son son, don't. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:03.680 Sup roll names a ry Yeah and I got bars yeah. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.840 Oh yeah. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.400 Sa twice already said she. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:20.480 Supreme roll call Supreme up some Supreme roll call sub 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.639 bream up some supreme roll ladies. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.880 Yeah. As soon as I heard wrong, because I knew 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:35.240 what was coming in really really crazier. I didn't know 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.160 you were going to mix a lot. We so you 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.880 sound like a little bit of b real and you 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.880 remember when Big Dad knees dancer had b real iron 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:53.640 on on bro Bro School Love School. Yeah, I thought 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.760 you had school lover. Iis no, that was my mix 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:00.960 a lot in personal swell downe for Seattle. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.200 Welcome to another episode. I'm sorry, a very special What's 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:10.000 going Down episode? That's my that's my mama of quest 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.920 Love Supreme. Welcome ahead, Supreme, guys. How are you you're doing? 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.320 We ain't on an outfield or you know, on the. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.520 Court, just sports. We run it out of sport. I 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.760 feel like this is going to be a not a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.040 tense episode, but a serious episode. Let me just take 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.760 all the fun out the room right now for fun? Yeah, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.320 fun got revolutionaries got to have fun anymore. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:37.559 I didn't even get to do a second. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:38.560 You want it right now? 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.960 You want that's one. You mess up? You mess up, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:48.480 that's interest. Yeah. Welcome to my world anyway, ladies and gentlemen, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.159 in our in our special What's going Down episode of Damn. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.040 I forgot the name of my. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.200 Show, what's happening? 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:58.400 Supreme? 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.720 I love this woman so much that I forgot the 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.520 name of my own damn show. You know, for me, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.440 for the times that we live in, we've been spending 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.560 a lot of this time nerding out with our favorite 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:21.640 music acts and you know, uh, learning about music and art. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.080 We rarely do anything leaning towards politics, but I guess 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.080 we'd be remiss if we weren't at least going to 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.039 have one general discussion about what's going down, uh and 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.720 the times we live in. And I can't think of 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.440 anyone better uh to sort of tour guide us through 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.800 this alternative reality we're in right now than our next guest, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:52.080 uh lawyer, Uh exactly in the role of the of 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.640 Black Caucus. Are you the board member the. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:01.159 The so I serve on two of the Affiliate Organization board. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.080 So there's the CBC Pack that's a political action committee. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:04.719 I'm on that board. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.480 I'm also on the CBC Institute Board, and I was 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.880 the CBC executive director in General Council. But I hung 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.719 up my jersey sports moneypoor for you. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.800 And I'm great with sports. Yeah, because the Bill's going 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:18.520 to call me on on that. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:27.040 Y on some elementarycome angel a ride to Court Love Supreme. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.520 Now what was he saying? Now? 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:32.640 I was just gonna say, can you break down with the 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.680 black CAUs does because there are people who really don't know. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.000 Sure, they're often they don't know, especially those that say, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.320 where's the Congressional White Caucus, as if the rest of 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.080 the four hundred and thirty five members aren't white? 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:42.640 I digress. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.840 So the Congressional Black Caucus is an entity that was 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.520 founded in nineteen seventy one. By then, I think it 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.160 was twelve members that were black in the House of Representatives, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.159 and they established the organization so that there could be 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.840 a space where black people's issues were heard. They're known 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.360 as the Conscience of the Congress. And now they are 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.680 almost to fifty members. And of course there are two 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.560 senators in the United States Senate who also serve as 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.320 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. There are three black senators, 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:20.120 but one opted not to join, Tim Scott, don't you 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:20.680 write it down? 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.680 So can I assume that most of the members of 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.800 the CBC are Democrat? 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.960 Yes, there is one current member of the CBC who's Republican. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.560 Her name is Mia Love. She is from Utah. My 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.200 aunt that's not your aunt. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.520 Well, her last name was Love. So just so that 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.440 all loves are related. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.600 My dad normally says maybe the same plantation. That's what 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.280 he says today, just to be honest with you. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:49.800 That's what he. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.560 Says the same plantation. Yeah, has she attended meetings or. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.440 Yeah, she has been active on some issues. She definitely 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.520 divergent on others, but she's been active on some issues. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:07.400 I see. So not why because I appreciate your your 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.840 grassroots involvement and you using elbow grease and getting down 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.400 and dirty, But why would you choose this particular field? 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.480 I mean, you went to law school. You could have 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.480 you know, you could have just. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:25.920 Done some other stuff. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.880 Yeah, I mean what what truly made you? Was it 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.640 following the family business or I mean in your father's 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.640 footsteps as far as the community, like what most lawyers 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.840 I know are thinking in terms of oh, successful by 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.200 my own law firm, being a partner and that sort 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.120 of thing. So should we know who her father is? 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.000 His name is Eddie Ryder Jr. He's an activist in Seattle. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.160 But it's actually a really interesting story. What I'll tell 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.440 you is there were two other paths that I thought 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.640 I would choose before I chose politics. I grew up 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.920 in a house with a dad who's an activist, and 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.880 I thought he was always on the opposite side of 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.920 elected politics. So I hated it growing up because I 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.200 couldn't understand why they didn't understand why, you know, why 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.400 he was pressing pressing for, you know, or a part 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.560 of the parts anti apartside movements, or you know, getting 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.280 involved with ensuring that subcontractors and contractors of color had 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.439 an equal share of the pie. I didn't understand why 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.720 that was even an issue, right, And so growing up 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.440 with him, I hated politics because they were never on 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.240 his side. And it wasn't until I was in my 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.680 last year, my fall semester of law school. I wanted 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:46.120 to do an internship in Los Angeles and Maxine Waters 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.560 was someone I respected a lot, and so I was like, well, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.400 if I can learn from her, you know, maybe this 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.480 will be good. But I'm gonna go so that I 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 could be a trial attorney like Johnny Coppran. I just 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.920 want to get an offer at the Cochran firm. And 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.000 before that, I wanted to be a sports entertainent layer. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.120 But I'll save that story for another day. It's really 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.880 interesting how that happened or didn't happen. But in my 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.640 I did my internship and like fell in love with 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.720 the bridge between activism and politics, and there's no better 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.720 bridge for that than Maxine Waters. I started calling her 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.240 the Nation's congresswoman then. That was in two thousand and four, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.040 two thousand and five, and just loved working with her, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.479 loved how she made everything work together for us, regardless 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.280 of if we lived in her district or not. And 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.240 I did get an offer from the Cochran firm, like 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.560 had a mentor Shawn Chapman Holly shout out to Shaun 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.400 Chapman Holly, who's still a good friend. Had an offer 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.400 with the firm, and then he died damn. And I 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.880 was like, oh lord, maybe this wasn't the path. So 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.720 at my the National Black Lost In Association. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.120 He died with your thousand and five Okay. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.360 At the convention, I was getting ready to introduce Congressman Waters, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.240 who came to our convention. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.720 I was like, what am I gonna do now? 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.760 Johnny Conran died and She's like, I told you to 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.480 go to the hell. So I was like, well, maybe 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.559 y'all think about that now. And that's really the short 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.520 version of how that happened. But she's never been wrong, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.600 and I'm so happy to see millennials woke about her now. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.199 But she been doing this the nation's congresswoman. Queen magazine's 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.480 been doing this so at her back to it all 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.440 makes sense now to why you had her back even 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.720 more when that whold stupid Bill o'reiley. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.640 I think I would have had any results going through that. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:25.600 That was stupid. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.360 She's on the floor of the United States House of 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.520 Representatives talking about what patriotism in the era of Trump 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.679 really means, like it's not, you know, pledging blind allegiance 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.120 to some concept. It's about standing up for what we 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.920 know to be truthful and righteous. And for her to 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.000 be talking about that and he's talking about it, damn 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.640 James brownwig. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.960 It took me to send me to a place it's dismissive. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.200 among other things. Oh yeah, a lot of shit DISSI 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.920 of the yes, that was very kind. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:12:00.920 Of So do you I mean, obviously, I know it's overwhelming, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:07.600 but just watching you in action, of course, like in 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.040 the age of social media, a lot of people are 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.840 familiar with you as as far as your your clips 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:22.959 on the internet, usually going at people well and and 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:28.959 rightfully so whenever facts are are are sprouted out. And 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.160 that's the thing like when I when I watch you 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:37.280 go against two three four people at a time, it is. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.200 I mean, it's baffling to me. I don't know if 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.560 it's the equivalent of someone asking, well, you know, how 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.640 do you how do you coordinate your kick drum and 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.400 your high had foot and your left hand and your 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.360 right hand and talk to people? 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.120 You know, how are you not exhausted? 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.079 I didn't say I wasn't exhausted. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.400 I did not say that, But I mean, have I mean, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:01.040 as I read the the era that we live in now, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.280 which is, of course, I guess, the alternative facts era 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.240 in which things are said with such a straight face. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.960 I think, you know, in general, a lot of us 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.760 have been programmed to believe that if any information comes 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:22.199 from someone wearing a suit and spoken in the King's English, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.400 then why should they lie to me? Like, you know, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.200 why would they want to lie to me? And usually, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.920 you know, a lot of benefits of doubts are given, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:38.079 and we're seeing straight up false information. How I mean 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.000 to me, it's like the equivalent of you playing a 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:45.480 tennis match with five people on the other side. I mean, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.760 how do you I mean, just in this era, especially 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:53.600 when you agreed to do pundent remarks on shows, how 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.800 do you grasp your information because you have to know 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.080 what they stand for and how they come. Like, do 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.319 you just don't want to train you? Is it? 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.880 No, I've never had media training, but I will say 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.160 that I did get Crossfire training. I don't know if 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.440 you all remember Crossfired, like the CNN show back in 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.000 the day when it was all the old white dudes 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:14.600 at the table. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:16.800 Just growing up with my dad. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.880 Now he doesn't lie, but we don't always agree on 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.120 the means to an end goal. So growing up like 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.000 just debating him or you know, talking to my friends, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.920 or debating race issues, like I went to a majority 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.480 white high school, you know, started a black student union, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.040 and so you get used to having to explain to 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.400 people your perspective because it's not the majority view. So 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:42.520 whether or not this is this may be an alternate universe, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.520 but it's still not the majority view on the panel. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.320 So it's just debating. The problem I have, and I think. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:54.240 When people see me get really upset is when I 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:59.920 remember the responsibility that we have to give people factual information. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.600 And I think the frustration that I have, if nothing 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.040 else right now, is being able to speak to people 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.080 in their homes on their TV screens is an awesome privilege, 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.720 and we have an obligation to give them information they 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.920 can rely upon, and so I'll normally lose it, especially 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.080 on like black networks, like on TV one, if I'm 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.440 on Rolling show and somebody's lying, I flip out, like 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.560 there's been you know, jiff or gift depending on how 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.880 you said jiffable moments just from that, like please don't 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.480 come here and lie to our folks. Not that folks 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.360 should be lied to unseen in either, but I just 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.400 think that there's a different type of responsibility and even 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.160 with seeing it, and I think it is really hard 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:45.520 because I remember one of the debates during the general election, 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.920 the Debate Commission decided that the moderator did not have 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.040 an obligation to fact check the candidates, and I lost it. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.960 I was like, what do you mean, Like, that's your only. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.880 Responsibility besides asking the questions like you have one job 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.920 or two? You know one a in one, b like 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.920 all in one, but you have something what do you 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.960 mean Like, of course you have to make sure that 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.800 they're being like what are you debating? Then if facts 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.760 become a debatable point and not just the perspectives on 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:18.240 those facts, that is a new challenge, and so I do. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.520 I find it immensely frustrating because I don't understand how 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.120 someone could be deemed credible at all if they're not 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.200 relying on the same principle of truth. You know, it's 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.760 just it's maddening. It really, it really really is. And 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.880 so to me, I just think that the energy I 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.920 take into those spaces is if you're not going to 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.760 be told the truth from anyone else, you're going to 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.680 hear it from me. And if I'm ever if I 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.800 ever misspeak on something, if a stat is wrong, you know, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.640 if I said a word wrong, I'll fact check it 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.840 later on Twitter. But I'm not gonna lie to people. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.440 Intentionally deceiving them like that is just wrong. And that's 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.239 just kind of where I draw the line. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:17:02.720 Now as of this particular taping. Right now, the healthcare 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.880 situation is in the hands of the Senate, and I'm 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:13.960 seeing a lot of them. I guess at one point 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.199 on Twitter there were at least three or four of 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.879 them that tweeted out or gave interviews sort of to 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.720 the tune of you know, you're saying that you know 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.080 that twenty two million people might lose their insurance or 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.840 and this several hundred thousand might die if this law 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.919 goes and you know that was that was not a 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.240 good conversation point to sway them the other way. But 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.199 I mean, what is for those? Because I have a 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.200 lot of friends who are so overwhelmed with what's going 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.679 on that now my friends are at the point where 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:59.040 they're just so not even past the point of indifference, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.960 but just so overwhelmed that they don't watch the news 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.640 at all. And these are the ones who are generally 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.040 on my side of the fence. I don't know. I 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.160 can't sleep at night unless I at least watch an 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.000 hour or two of at least Rachel's show or someone 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.080 that I know that's going to give me straight up facts. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:25.919 But how do you how do we reignite uh people 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.520 or a community of people that just feel like it's 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:36.199 it's no use? Yeah, no use? I started. God, have 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.800 you guys heard of a handmaid Handmaid's Tale? 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.080 I haven't watched it yet? Yeah? 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:40.720 Have you watched it? 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.600 I haven't watched it, but I know it's. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.760 Yeah, I heard the future really sad? 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.680 Like if you yeah, if you think that like a 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.440 House of Cards or you know, whatever is being depicted 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:58.000 now in television as don't hamming. It almost feels like 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.359 this is that's where it's going to go to. Okay, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.399 I checked that. I haven't even watched. I gave up 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.320 on House of Cards, like I just because. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:04.360 It was. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.880 Right. Yeah, I don't know how they did that. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.679 Yeah, I l like weight blame House of Cards? 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.240 Actually right, all of it inic. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.520 Not just. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.440 I need to find somebody to blame because this makes 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.200 no senseides besides old lad like I just I gotta 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:25.680 I don't know, don't happen. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:26.879 On the hills of what Amra said. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.280 And on that note, how do you prioritize the issues 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.080 that should you should be most caring about? Because yes, 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.800 health care is the issue right now, but there are 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.720 numerous issues that you know, our president right now and 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.440 his Congress are about to fuck up life with. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.440 So how do you do that, Angela? 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.360 How do you prioritize so first that y'all's president, that's 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.280 not so No. So I think that that's a really 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.080 really good question. And what I appreciate about it is 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.560 I get so frustrated with whether they're elected officials, they 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.600 are sitting members of Congress right now who will say, well, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.679 we don't need to be talking about Russia because what 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.479 people really want to know about is their healthcare. What 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.520 people really want to know about is you know where 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.320 the next job is going to come from the economy. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.800 But here's that's right, and if so, if we're honest, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.440 every single day, all of us are responsible for balancing 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.879 something mer we were talking about your time earlier, like 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:24.680 we're responsible for balancing some things. We are people who 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.800 can walk into gum at the same time and be okay. 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.000 So it's actually okay for us to try to get 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.240 to the bottom of what happened with Russia and how 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.639 they ended up in several you know polls, you know, precincts, 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.439 messing with stuff. You know, that's important for us to 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:44.400 understand because over time, if if countries, if entities can 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.680 continue to uh interrupt and disrupt our democracy the ways 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.359 in which we engage in the electoral process, people are 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.760 going to become disillusioned with that. That is very very 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.199 very dangerous. That's exactly right. That means a select you 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.679 are picking your your leaders. And what happens is this 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.399 healthcare bill to bring this back full circle, which is 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.639 you know, very toxic. It is a you know it's 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.800 it's a tax cut for billionaires. You know, it is 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:18.280 a way of One of the Senate compromises that came about. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.000 Yesterday was okay, well we'll just uh. 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.960 We'll reinstitute the mandatory health care you have to sign 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.359 up mandatorily. But what we're going to do is if 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.440 there's a lapse in your health care, then there's gonna 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.280 be a six month window for you to get healthcare. Again, 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.320 what happens if something happens to you six in those 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.760 six months and you can't afford to pay for health 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.479 care out of pocket, that's not a compromise. And if 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.720 it's a compromise, who is it on the backs of? 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.280 And those are folks who normally look like us, if 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.159 they're underserved and marginalized communities, black and brown communities. 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:51.920 We have to pay attention. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.600 And if so, if there's nothing else that I hope 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.800 comes out of this treacherous, dangerous, awful time, it is 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.040 that I hope we really lies that these people are 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.000 working for us. And I use this analogy on a 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.840 panel the other day. There's not a single one of 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.440 us who, if we are employing people, just are like, Okay, 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.359 we're gonna pay you. You go and do whatever and 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.480 never check in. There's a team call, there's a team meeting, 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.600 there's an agenda, there's some type of metrics for accountability 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.480 where they have to check in with us. We pay 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.840 these people, They owe us answers, they owe us to 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.040 do the right thing. I think it's town halls, and 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.880 the town halls aren't even enough. And people are starting 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.840 to show up town halls, but even that's not enough. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:36.960 We need to be checking them on what they're doing. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.760 What they're doing impacts us more in some instances than 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:41.880 the employees that we that we that we have. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:47.359 So can I ask you, and I know as a 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:53.040 lawyer that you're not supposed to speculate, but with the 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:59.240 Russia issue, break it down to me, Like I'm a 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:06.160 six year old, why don't we go to show At first, 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.320 I was like eight six, eight, let me go six 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.560 and six. Just say collusion a lot? What is your 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.520 belief And you're you're connected to a lot of those, 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.080 a lot of people in politics that we're not getting. 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:26.240 What is your belief on what happened? Now? What I'm 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:32.399 thinking the narrative is, especially in light of uh Trump 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:39.040