WEBVTT - We Will March On 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.880 What's good. Family is your girl to make a D. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.120 Mallory and it's your boy and my son in general. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:18.080 And we are your host, the street politicians, the place listen. Today, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.959 we have the pleasure of being at the Legacy Center 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.520 also known as the Black House, which is a crowd 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:36.640 fun sourced effort that Jay Morrison and Ernestine Johnson Morrison 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.400 UH put together, raised money to open something like a 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.240 wee work That's the best way that I can describe 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.080 it to folks. It's obviously much more than a we 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:52.400 work space because, um, you have so many community events 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.600 and efforts that take place here in this historic location 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.240 in Georgia. UM, My son and I are proud to 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.560 be two major supporters of this space just and when 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.440 I say major, I mean from the very beginning we 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.400 have been here and have continued to try to get 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.679 black folks to understand the importance of supporting facilities like this. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.720 We love the we work spaces and other coworking spaces, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.319 um that are owned by white folks. But this is 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.080 a space that's owned by black people. And since I've 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.679 been here today because we just happened to be in 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.959 and and Selma, Alabama had to travel to Atlanta, needed 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.039 to stop to do our show. Um. And since I've 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.679 been here, the detail, the cleanliness, the friendliness of everyone 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.040 calling one another kings and queens. I see people here 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.120 working on different efforts. They have different things going on 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.320 where folks are sort of renting space if you will, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:00.560 to come and use conference rooms and um, different meeting areas. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.800 And it really makes me feel good to know that 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.680 we first of all put our money here, but also 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.400 that we are just invested in making sure that the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.480 Legacy Center continues to grow. And shout out to Jay 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.919 and Earnestine for keeping this space going. There's a lot 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.800 of space in this building. Um. And so I know 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.359 Greenlit Studios, which is Ernestine's studio. You know, she's an actress, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.200 she is a filmmaker, um and so they have a 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.480 big space that where they do her work and Jay's podcast. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.680 It takes a lot to maintain this type of space. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.799 Vice it does, man, when and when you, like you said, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.240 when you look at the detail and the cleanliness and 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.560 just the whole prisonna and ambiance of the place, it 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.840 just gives you, like black excellence. Man. So I know 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.440 it takes a lot to maintain it. Shout out to 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.760 Jay and understand and everybody else, just the staff, he 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.160 is just there't pretty healthful that came in here. Do 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.480 you need anything came that? You know. They gave us 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.680 the red carpet, And it's not just cause it's us, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.760 it's everybody. I see them treat everybody with the same 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.400 level of enthusiasm and respect, and that's what you want 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.160 to that's what you want to have, you know. So 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.280 it's I'm definitely proud to be one of the first 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.680 supporters and one of the partners with traff Life in 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.960 this black House situation. So if you're in the Georgia 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.440 area and you need a space, they do events, spaces, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.000 they have party they have all different types of spaces. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.480 So if you're in the Georgia area, look up the 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.960 Black House, you know, um, and make sure that you 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:40.000 try to patron you know. Yeah, that's right, listen. It 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.480 is close to the airport. I don't know. We we 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.680 dropped Linda at the airport this morning before coming to 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.680 shoot the show. How many minutes I don't know, maybe 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:53.680 fifteen minutes time to get from the airport to come 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.040 to the Legacy Center. And again, it's clean, there's a 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.840 kitchen here. So if you and you don't have to 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.440 live in Georgia like we live in New York. We're 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.560 headed to New York City as soon as we finished 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.920 filming our show today. Um, but we were able to 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.960 make a pit stop here so that we could tape 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.400 our show and not lose a whole day of work 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.040 just because we were traveling. So for folks who are 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.320 flying in and out of Georgia, we know Georgia is 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.880 a major hub. A lot of people are looking for 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.599 office space. Don't be so quick to run to the 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.360 spaces that are owned by people who don't look like us. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.680 Remember that the Legacy Center is here and there are 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.719 events that take place here that are curated by this team. Um. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.359 And so if you're just looking for stuff to do 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.919 when you're in Georgia, check the Black House out and 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.320 come through. And it's on a big campus, so there's 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.279 outdoor space. There is space for every type of event 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.920 that you want to do. So Mike's getting into the 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.960 show today. There's a lot of things happening, and um, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.680 you know a lot of concerning issues. There's always a 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.120 lot of things happening. I think I say that every week, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.800 but it's just true, so I'll continue to say it 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.280 in so there's not a lot of things happening. Um, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.080 this situation with Britney Grinder, I really kind of need 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.080 you to explain it to me, right because first of all, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.920 I know she's a w NBA player and she's been 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.640 detained in Russia. I'm trying to figure out why she's 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.240 in Russia. Is that because this is a place where 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.000 people go to play like overseas sports, And then I 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.000 know she is she's she was detained there for something 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.040 that I didn't think was marijuana. But then I don't know, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.359 I'm a little confused. So help me understand. Well, UM, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.599 this based on what I what I've been reading. Um, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.719 she's definitely an NBA w NBA player. I don't know 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.600 exactly what she was doing in Russia. Maybe she was 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.719 there on you know, working playing in some of the 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.120 games out there, but I know that they said that 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:56.279 the customers inspection of her hand luggage they found um 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.480 hash oil cannabis oil, which is considered narcotic substance there. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.159 You know, they arrested her and it happened they arrested 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.719 her in February, but they didn't give that they didn't 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.919 see the exact date. I was heard that it was 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.400 she's been detained for the last three weeks. And we 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.599 know that based on what's going on in Russia and 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.400 U as being a part of those who are sanctioning 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:27.720 against you know, the war, the Agian War in Ukraine, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.240 that this is definitely gonna be some retaliatory you know process. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.280 So it's you don't want to say that, but you 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.240 know it's it's not really, it's not really a good situation. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.200 They're saying that it's gonna be hard, you know what. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.039 I'm looking at seeing them and they said it'll be 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.360 very difficult to get the team basketball stuff really grinding 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.719 out of Russia alone. Makers say, so, you know that's 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:57.679 because there's no negotiation table with what's happening with Ukraine 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.560 and in America using its power um on the I 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:06.520 guess at the NATO table to try to stop the invasion. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:11.160 It's a lot. So this young lady black woman um 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:16.120 uh NBA w NBA player is they're detained in Russia. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.160 We're still not sure which I'm sure once we uh 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.360 post our show, we'll hear from everybody all the things. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.560 In fact, I actually reached out to our brother, her Roland, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.160 who works within the n b a UM and works 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.239 with a lot of NBA players, UM and NFL players. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.040 I tried to find out more information and which he 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.840 was giving me a little bit, but also connecting me 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.160 with some people who are close to to Brittany Grinls. So, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.280 you know, we gotta figure this out because you know, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.360 at least the system needs to know that people in 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.680 the US are you know, speaking for her, advocating for 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.440 her and making sure that um, you know, she doesn't 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.520 just feel like she's alone. And if she's been in 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.320 if she's been detained for three weeks, that's a long time, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.880 especially for oils, which I thought was legal, but I 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.160 guess it's not. Depending on which state gering, I mean, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.560 which country you're in. It's so many. It's so confusing, Yeah, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.920 it is, And you know, and they also, you know, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.720 just based on the situation, they're saying that the diplomatic 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.960 negotiations and just communication is pretty much non existence between 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.800 American and Russia right now. And then they're saying that, um, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.200 they're very strict on l g PT rules and laws 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.840 in Russia, and she's a you know, she's a proud 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.280 LGBT woman, and so these things we don't know if 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.760 those rules are going to impact her case or not. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.320 But this is things that they're stating on CNN right 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.679 now shouldn't have anything to do with her situation because 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:53.200 like if you are gay by yourself, like it's not 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.360 like what she there. Let's see, we have to figure 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.280 out what was she doing in Russia? You know, well, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.360 this is just this is just these to reports coming 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.880 from seeing N. From seeing N that I'm reading they're saying, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.760 you know, he the the representative notice, I mean noted 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.000 that Russia is very strict on LGBT rules and laws, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.920 though it's not clear whether those rules and laws might 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.400 impact a case. They just that was something that because 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.800 she's getting exactly and they have they have thousands of 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.440 people signed, you know, to to ask for her requests back, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.040 I mean her speedy returned back to the U S. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.800 So you know, my prayers are with Brittany. I notice 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.240 is you know, gotta be hard to deal with. Man. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.160 You go, you're traveling and something that you didn't even 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:48.600 know is a narcotic in another country at a time 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:53.240 during you know, pretty much non existent communication between two 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.400 different countries during times of war and you're trapped like 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.480 this has to be very scary. So my friends go 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.080 out to her in a family. Yeah. And the prison 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.160 in Russia, I'm sure it's not the best place that 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.920 you know, where you want to be. So also, you know, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.320 speaking of scares, we all have had such a traumatic 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:20.120 UM three years now dealing with the COVID nineteen issues. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.199 Whether you believe did a hundred percent or didn't believe it, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.560 or you felt it wasn't that bad, or it was 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.760 worse than we knew. And if you thought you should 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.080 wear a mask, you shouldn't wear a mask. Whatever you 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.040 want to say, the virus impacted all of us. Every 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.240 single person. Is no one that can say that they 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.760 were not impact, that their life was not somehow shifted. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.640 We always talk about the mental health challenges that we 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.960 know people experience being locked away. Just so many things 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.400 happened over the last three years, UM, and some folks 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 will say you weren't locked away, but to some people 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.120 it had that impact. It made you feel like you 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.960 were locked away from your family. You have folks that 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.840 in the last year you've watched them UM have videos 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.680 where they're seeing their family members for the first time, 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.360 like for the first time they're seeing their mom or 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.760 somebody that is like really a grandmother, people seeing their children. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.920 So it really really was a devastating time. And of 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:33.400 course in New York we had the strongest UH mandates ever, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.400 like anything. You couldn't go to restaurants. A lot of 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.400 people took after us. Um I know l a uh 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.680 they decided and well in California, certain places in California, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.600 I think it was more so l A though, that 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:51.040 decided to follow New York's laws of having people um uh. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.280 You have to show your vaccination in order to go 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.200 to a restaurant, in order to go to certain events plays, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.880 you know, just to be out in certain public environments. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.800 And of course the masked mandates were strict. May at 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:11.080 the blasiol Our immediately outgoing mayor just has left office. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.800 He was extremely strong and strict on everything COVID related. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.760 Some of it I thought was necessary because in New 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.560 York is very different and you and I have debated 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.440 this back and forth, but it's different from other places 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.439 that sort of open air. You're talking about a city 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.800 where people live real close to one another. Everybody's touching 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.240 handles and whatnot. Some of it I thought, you know 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.839 you and not debated this back and forth. So some 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.800 of it I thought because of the fact that the 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.640 New York we live on top of one another, um, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.840 and the way that you know, people open the doors, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.480 everybody behind one another. The train system, which by the way, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.440 is a disaster. It was disaster m t A before 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.080 the pandemic, but it's gotten worse because it seems that 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.559 all the homeless people have moved in to the train 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.800 station and they need help and services fast um. And 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.160 a lot of different people who have mental health issues. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.000 So some of it I thought was necessary in terms 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.720 of cleaning and all of that, but there were other 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.200 things that I did not necessarily feel we should be 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.720 requiring and demanding, especially people losing their jobs for not 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.040 wanting to be vaccinated. That's something I've never ever supported. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.440 Now they're lifting because we have a new mayor. I'm 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.720 not sure that de Blasio would have lifted these mandates 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.280 at this time, but Eric Adams, our new mayor, has 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.480 lifted the mandates as of us taping right now, UM, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.360 and there will be no more mass mandates in certain places. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.040 And of course, unless you're a business that wants to 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.120 keep the mandate. If you want to say for your 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.920 business you have to have a mask, and then also 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.080 going to restaurants and things like that, you won't have 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.040 to have a proof of vaccination. There are a lot 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:02.800 of people that's kissed off about it. I mean, I'm 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.360 not I think for me, right, you know, I'm always 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.559 for precaution, you know, and I want people to be safe. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.520 I want people to feel safe. I just never was 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.280 with Mann. The word mandate, the word mandate, imposing your 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.360 will upon somebody's their bodies, and things of that nature. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 It just never was something that was okay for me. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.680 I don't think anyone should be false into being vaccinated. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.840 I don't think anyone should be forced into wearing masks 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.640 all day, you know. I think the people who feel 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.960 that it makes them feel secure and safe, you should 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.080 wear it, you know, and and when you should take it. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.520 I just think those things to me just it just 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.040 took away civil liberties of just human beings, you know. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.880 So now, now what happens a lot of these people 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.240 who who took vaccines because they wanted to be able 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.040 to go to restaurants and they wanted to do all 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.480 these things. You know, and they didn't. They felt pressured 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.800 to even be able to live a human life. Now 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.840 these people say, okay, it don't matter, no, And it's 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.600 a lot of people who never took it anyway, So 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.040 you you're moving around with people just a lot of 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.560 these things never made sense, just like you know, the 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.680 whole situation with Kyrie and him not being there to 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.560 pay home games, but the visiting teams who have people 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.080 who are not vaccinated because they can still play, Like, 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.840 none of those things makes sense. You've got people the 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.120 players have to be vaccinated and the people who come 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.680 in don't have to be vaccinated. So it's just it 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.040 just really to me, it's like, what do we really 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.320 saying to people that did it really make sense? Is 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.680 it really added up to anything? So, I mean, I 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.280 guess Tom will tell I guess you have to make 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.960 that decision for yourself. You gotta be able to say, Okay, 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.760 does it make sense to me? And I safer? Now? 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.240 Did did anything change you know in a way that 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.560 we were handling it now? Or these people who haven't 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.400 been vaccinated are still able to do all the things 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.840 they've been doing and some of us had to get 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.600 vaccinated and didn't like, you know, so I just guess 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.800 we just gotta see, you know, I hope, hopefully. I 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.640 want to see how this plans out because I'm a 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.920 broken Nets fan. I want Kyrie to be able to 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.800 play in inst so I just want to see how 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.840 this affects his eligibility to be able to play. You know, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.720 hopefully they'll be able to pick up Kevin Garnett and 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.840 you know, so that's one of the main things for me, 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.520 is like with sports, and basketball was probably the only 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.040 sport who really suffered the rest of the sports, did 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.320 you know, you had Aaron Rodgers and them who weren't 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.120 vaccinated or anything, and they were able to play games 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.400 the whole year. But you had somebody like Kyrie who 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.080 you know, took a stance and decided that for his 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.600 personal you know, health and his own personal readings, based 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.360 on his own studies, you know, for him, he decided 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.360 he didn't want to and he was penalized and people 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.680 made fun of him, and people called them all types 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.040 of names. And now we were right back to where 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.240 you can just do whatever you want. So it's like 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.600 a lot of people experience unfair treatment, you know, based 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.160 on these mandates. And in certain things. So you know, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.160 I'm I'm just interested to see how do people move 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.960 forward and what is going to be the response. I 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.880 don't know, you know, I mean, I agree with you, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.680 it's gonna be. It's interesting because there are people who 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.439 was like, I'll never go to a restaurant in New 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.600 York City. They went to Westchester, they went to New Jersey, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.320 and they are determined not to be vaccinated. So you 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.040 still now have those people unvaccinated, without masks and now 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.359 being able to sit right next to you in a restaurant. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.080 You won't know the difference. Then you have people who 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.040 felt forcing. When I say felt force, I'm talking about 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.360 people who were emotionally damaged because they had to get 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.760 this vaccine. Emotionally damage like it was a lot of 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.560 stress on several people, including family members and friends, people 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.960 who are close to me, that we're really going through 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.520 hell and making the decision about whether or not they 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.440 had to take this this vaccine. And now to see 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.800 that these you know, the the mandates have been lifted. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.840 I mean, I believe that they should have been lifted 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.679 because here's the thing. It's all about going in the 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.720 right direction, right Like people were saying before all they 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.480 went from ten day quarantine to now it's down to five. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.280 And there were people who were like, why does it 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.280 have to be for now all of a sudden, and 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.920 it was like a big deal. And I'm thinking to myself, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.240 if you live in a society where you something bad happens, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.440 they're supposed to be measures to clean things up and 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.679 get it to a place where it doesn't have to 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.400 be as stringent as it was in the very, very beginning. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.639 That's the goal is to move towards things being you 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.400 know better, right, And so if it went from ten 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.920 to five, that means we're going in a good direction 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.560 to eventually come from under all of this. So of 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.000 course the mandates being lifted, it's a good thing, especially 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.600 because how many of our friends and people we do 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.080 business with that came. I'm just thinking about at one point, Um, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.520 I don't know, I don't even know whether she's vaccinated now, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.480 but anyway, I won't even say her name, so we 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.040 won't even get her target. But someone who's very who 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.480 works with us, is very close to us, came from 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.840 out of town and they couldn't we couldn't go out 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.960 to eat because it was freezing and raining outside, and Dave, 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.199 she wanted to take us to lunch and we couldn't 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.320 go out to eat because she was not vaccinated. So 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.520 these things, um, you know, we we we hope will change, 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.200 but how does it impact somebody who felt they had 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.800 to take that needle? And it's just I don't know, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.040 Like you said, it all remains to be seen and 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.320 it's all kinds of hypocritical stuff that goes on in 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.120 this damn country. So hey, what's what else is new? 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.480 And speaking of, you know, hypocritical stuff, I don't know 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.320 many it's not. And maybe sometimes we're a little too 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.800 hard or I don't know. I'm starting to feel like 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.560 maybe it's me. But you know, I've been watching the 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.840 news and obviously Ukraine is like really messed up, Like 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.080 it's really messed up. That pulling a man a one 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.679 man could just decide he's gonna go bully some people 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.600 in another country. It's not right. And I see all 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.879 these people being like, it's not our problem, and we 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.120 this and that the third, but as we all know, 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.359 it is our problem because if you're looking at them 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.040 skyrocket and ask gas prices up there, you know that 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.200 it is we are being impacted, and there's a lot 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.200 of stuff that is being impacted based upon what's happening 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.359 with Russia and Ukraine right now, and there's going to 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.520 be more and we have not seen the like full 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.159 extent of it. It could potentially get violent here in 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.440 the US. So we're we're we're in a situation here 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.520 where you can't ignore world crises. You have to know 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.320 what's happening. You've got to be aware, and there have 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.000 to be people within the activist community and the advocacy 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.840 communities like Shaun King and others who helped to dissect 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.879 what's going on every single day so that we are 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.720 aware as well. It is not okay for us to 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.679 just be ignorant, like we gotta know what's going on 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.240 in this world, because guess what, if we were paying 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.639 close to attention to what was happening with Iraq and 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.520 the oil and the war and all of the stuff, 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.400 perhaps we would have been much more knowledgeable when those 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.679 planes hit No hit and non eleven but or in 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.480 the Middle East, because that's more than just Iraq. You're 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.880 talking about a whole bunch of ship that was happening 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.760 at that time. Um that that I don't think a 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.120 lot of us were really paying attention to. So with 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:22.320 that being said, with this Ukraine situation, yes we need 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:27.480 to know, but we can also feel um violated to 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.639 some extent that that we as a country that is 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:34.199 all over the place in the US, we got mad issues, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.000 like mad issues, We've got homelessness as we just talked 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.000 about people being houseless, if you will, as a more 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.000 respectable way of describing it, And we just talked about 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.919 that people on the trains all over You've got people 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.960 of poverty, You've got hungry children. I was listening this 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.520 weekend to some stuff that Reverend Dr Barber was saying. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.879 He was laying out, like before COVID, all of the 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:03.080 different crisis that existed. We're been We're in trouble, and 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:08.120 yet our government, our president is asking Congress to give 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:12.120 a little more than six billion dollars to him so 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.360 that he can spend money on the war in and 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.439 and try to help out with Ukraine. Yes, we have 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.280 to protect our interests. You said that on the last show. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.520 You broke it down to me and explained it, and 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.239 I was kind of like, but then you would explain it, 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.119 like if we do business with people and being a 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.520 major superpower in this country, we cannot just let security 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.400 things happen that we're not engaged in and making sure 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.840 we protect our interests. And there are Americans there in Ukraine, 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.120