Speaker 1: My name is Christina Carmona. Hi, my name's Media Christina.
Speaker 1: My name is. My name is Latizia Comai. I am Carlin.
Speaker 1: I'm anombous here and I'm from Pakistan. My name is
Speaker 1: Tommy and I'm from Billy from East Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 1: From Phoenix, Arizona. My name is Dara Baba and we
Speaker 1: are from the Purpose Christie, Texas of Mexican descent. I'm
Speaker 1: Chinese and on Vietnamese. I'm mostly in Norwegian, but a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything else stand Outasian mixed with Finnish,
Speaker 1: mickwith Uh, Native American, Samoa and all different types of things.
Speaker 1: We are all connected, We're all connected, we are all
Speaker 1: we are all connected, connected are all we are all one.
Speaker 1: We are all one, one planet, one race, one consciousness.
Speaker 1: And I am one person taking one action to get
Speaker 1: us closer to peace, one day, closer closer to piece,
Speaker 1: one day to peace, one day. Who will you make
Speaker 1: peace with? Today? Who will you you? Wh will you
Speaker 1: make who will you make peace with? Today? Will you
Speaker 1: make a peace week? Today? Hey, it's Bobby Bones. So
Speaker 1: honored to be with you today hosting this very special
Speaker 1: episode of Spits in celebration of Peace Day. We're live
Speaker 1: from the daytime stage at the I Heart Radio Music Festival,
Speaker 1: and what you just heard or concert goers lending their
Speaker 1: voices for peace. Peace Day is where we put our
Speaker 1: differences the side. Let's power of music bring us together,
Speaker 1: because when we realize that genetically we're all nive at
Speaker 1: the same and focus on what connects us, we get
Speaker 1: one step closer to peace one Day. We have gathered
Speaker 1: the most peaceful people we know to join us as
Speaker 1: we tackle the question what does it take to make peace?
Speaker 1: First off is Peace one Day Ambassador Artist Guy got
Speaker 1: to know a little bit Mike Pos and we're gonna
Speaker 1: see you, buddy. What get you get your beard full?
Speaker 1: Full on? How long to take you to grow that thing?
Speaker 1: Maybe like eight nine months? It's very peaceful counting. It's
Speaker 1: like you're one. It's still growing it as we speaking currently,
Speaker 1: so posting it. Mike Posing is here Piece one Day founder.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Jeremy, how are you God? Jeremy. Yeah, it's great
Speaker 1: to be him man. Yeah, good to see. You've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of great things about you. I was walking
Speaker 1: up and they were like, you're gonna love Jeremy's like
Speaker 1: the best dude, So no pressure, but they like you
Speaker 1: the best dude. Bunch of people doing a great joke
Speaker 1: to raise it day. We're really grateful. And uh, Tim Phillips,
Speaker 1: founder of Beyond Conflict, in nonprofit organization that works with
Speaker 1: leaders to address conflict and promote social change. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a heavy room, Like Tim, it's a pleasure. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm three awesome people here. I don't even deserve to
Speaker 1: be in this room right now. That's crazy. So on
Speaker 1: today's episode, what we're talking about, like for real, is
Speaker 1: what does it take to make peace? And I'll say
Speaker 1: this that you know, we as humans are genetically ninety
Speaker 1: nine point five per cent the same meaning if you
Speaker 1: go into our DNA for as different as we it
Speaker 1: seems that we are, and we look on TV or
Speaker 1: the Internet, it's like we look around everybody so different
Speaker 1: in reality if you're just using add and we're ninety
Speaker 1: nine point five percent the absolute same, meaning there's only
Speaker 1: zero point five percent of us that separates every human
Speaker 1: on the planet, which is pretty awesome to know that
Speaker 1: we're in this thing together. And I think that's also
Speaker 1: why we're here, is because we really are on this together.
Speaker 1: Peace day is about reminding us how much we have
Speaker 1: in common. Jeremy, I want to come to you. Can
Speaker 1: you tell us a bit about your vision when creating
Speaker 1: Peace Day? Peace one Day? Yeah, I mean, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen years ago. I was concerned and confused
Speaker 1: about what was going on in the world. You know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand the destruction and the starvation and the
Speaker 1: killing of innocent people, what we were doing to our planet,
Speaker 1: in each other, in our homes, communities, schools, and places
Speaker 1: of work. And so I thought, you know, I'll make
Speaker 1: a film about peace. And then I realized there was
Speaker 1: no day of peace with a fixed calendar day. And
Speaker 1: so I had this idea that I'd make a documentary
Speaker 1: about trying to establish the first ever day of ceasefire
Speaker 1: and non violence, the first ever peace day with a
Speaker 1: fixed calendar date. And I hope that would bring us together,
Speaker 1: and out of that unity would come hope and a
Speaker 1: belief that you know, we know, by working together, we
Speaker 1: can you know, make a real difference and lift the
Speaker 1: level of consciousness around the fundamental issues that humanity faces.
Speaker 1: And after years of traveling the world voted for the day.
Speaker 1: The twenty one September is now he stays celebrated by
Speaker 1: my heart and uh, you know twenty three and me
Speaker 1: last night. And when we once we've created that day,
Speaker 1: we then wanted to prove it could work, and that
Speaker 1: took us into Afghanistan. We spent a couple of years
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate a ceasefire there, which eventually happened. The
Speaker 1: Talaman agreed to not kill or kidnap on that day,
Speaker 1: and that allowed us to mobilize around ten thousand vaccinators
Speaker 1: with UNICEF and w h O and vaccinate one point
Speaker 1: four million children against polio as a consequence of that,
Speaker 1: And then the last few years have been about telling
Speaker 1: the people about the day. And that's why you know,
Speaker 1: what Mike did and what you guys are doing, what
Speaker 1: twenty three and me and what you know I Heart
Speaker 1: have done in terms of raising awareness of the day
Speaker 1: is a wonderful thing. So we're really grateful. Tell me
Speaker 1: about Afghanistan, Like, that's gotta be nuts, right, You're going
Speaker 1: into a place that super bold and you're going in
Speaker 1: and you're you're going to have this idea I need
Speaker 1: to negotiate with you, Like, is that scary for you?
Speaker 1: As a human being. Well, no, I mean I think that.
Speaker 1: You know, when you climb the mountain, you know, you
Speaker 1: you focus on each grip. You know, you're not really
Speaker 1: looking at the you know, the top, you're not thinking
Speaker 1: about that. You just kind of like focused on on
Speaker 1: every moment. And that's what we did. And I had
Speaker 1: a lot of help from YUNAMA and NATO, ISAFF you know,
Speaker 1: cars I, the British government and many other parties including
Speaker 1: you know, obviously local people that were key and central
Speaker 1: to the success of it. So you know, you don't
Speaker 1: really role like that. It's like you, guys, when you
Speaker 1: get on stage, you know, that's what you're on stage
Speaker 1: last night. I mean you got up there in front
Speaker 1: of I don't know, millions of people, nobody, nobody would
Speaker 1: be trying to shoot me. Well, that's crazy, Like you're
Speaker 1: an Afghanistan. Like that's that's brave. Like you have this
Speaker 1: noble thought in this bravery inside of it, which is
Speaker 1: why you're here. Like it's rare for someone to have
Speaker 1: an idea. You said nineteen years ago, we said on
Speaker 1: the road nineteen years nineteen years you're chasing this idea,
Speaker 1: this grandiose idea, this beautiful idea and you're putting yourself
Speaker 1: in situations that aren't comfortable to make sure that this
Speaker 1: idea is achieved. What inside of you do you think
Speaker 1: it is? The push? Is that? Why? Why why do
Speaker 1: you keep going after nineteen years? Well? I think that why?
Speaker 1: You know the numbers like, so, what's gonna happen yesterday?
Speaker 1: There would have been about a billion people now fully aware,
Speaker 1: there would have been around eighteen million, nineteen million people
Speaker 1: who changed their behaved yesterday. So that's a decrease of
Speaker 1: violence of around eight million people. And that's what fires
Speaker 1: me up, the idea that you know, on a day
Speaker 1: like this, people are mobilizing, they're changing their behavior in
Speaker 1: the home, the community, the school, and in places of work.
Speaker 1: And that just blows my mind to think that a
Speaker 1: child wouldn't be bullied in the classroom as a consequence
Speaker 1: of them being involved in a peaceful activity. Is what
Speaker 1: this is all about. What's fascinating is around five six
Speaker 1: percent of the conflict that will happen today will happen
Speaker 1: in an area of conflict. The bulk of violences in
Speaker 1: our homes, community, schools, and places of work. And what
Speaker 1: fires me up is that when we generate awareness of
Speaker 1: this day. Then that creates opportunities for people to engage
Speaker 1: in the peace process, and that decreases violence and creates
Speaker 1: a happier world. So you know, that's what keeps you going, right,
Speaker 1: you know, it's love that come on, that's crazy. And
Speaker 1: you know we go back and you know I talk
Speaker 1: about twenty three and me and you talk about peace
Speaker 1: and in our homes, you know, I say Afghanistan. But
Speaker 1: then you make a great point, like in our homes,
Speaker 1: Like that's where it all starts for us. You know,
Speaker 1: we can have this peace in our homes and take
Speaker 1: it out another world and kind of spread the seed.
Speaker 1: But we are so much the same as people. I'm
Speaker 1: inspired right now to talking to you. Come on now, Michael,
Speaker 1: gonna talk to you. Mike Posner sitting right next to me,
Speaker 1: he's right to my right. So how how did you
Speaker 1: get involved? Like we're sitting here and we've set beside
Speaker 1: each other in other situations. How did you get involved
Speaker 1: in this? Well, it's for me. It started when I
Speaker 1: heard the story of Christmas Day. The Middle World War
Speaker 1: One trench warfare, you know, rats, poisonous gas that the
Speaker 1: Germans are on one side, French and British or on
Speaker 1: the other in the middles no man's lamp. That's where
Speaker 1: that term comes from the First World War. And on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day against orders, right, uh, the soldiers decide we're
Speaker 1: not fighting and in some parts of the line they
Speaker 1: exchange gifts, and other parts of the line they actually
Speaker 1: played games of soccer with each other side that should
Speaker 1: be fighting each other. And I heard this and I just,
Speaker 1: I mean still talking about it, the hair stands up
Speaker 1: on my arms, and I just thought to myself that
Speaker 1: they could. If they could do that that day, then
Speaker 1: we all could do that for one day. And then
Speaker 1: that's when I found out myself about that there was
Speaker 1: a day dedicated to this, that a bunch of people were,
Speaker 1: you know, already practicing peace on this day, but not everyone,
Speaker 1: not everyone knew about it. I didn't know about it
Speaker 1: until I started looking. So I just wanted to um
Speaker 1: it help spread awareness. And that's when, yeah, we we
Speaker 1: connected with Jeremy and then connected with my heart, and dude,
Speaker 1: what a story. I had no idea, Like you're telling
Speaker 1: me that you're talking about two sides that are fighting
Speaker 1: war with each other, like trying to kill each other
Speaker 1: for a cause, but because of Christmas Day, a piece
Speaker 1: day for them at the time that they were able
Speaker 1: to go, hey, let's just let's just set it aside
Speaker 1: for a second. Yes, it's like a glimpse of what
Speaker 1: is possible. I feel and if you, if you really
Speaker 1: think about it, we're evolved to to really care and
Speaker 1: love about a hundred people like we. We we lived
Speaker 1: in tribes, you know, the human species, and through evolution
Speaker 1: and believing in in ideas and concepts, we you look
Speaker 1: at the concept of a nation where you might give
Speaker 1: your life for someone that you never met a million
Speaker 1: miles away, you know, across the country. So we've come
Speaker 1: a long way, right, and that we kind of we
Speaker 1: can see someone, hey, that that person is American. They're
Speaker 1: like me. So there's only a like, not that big
Speaker 1: of a step to just see everyone like that. I'm
Speaker 1: making sense. You're making a lot of sense. And I
Speaker 1: wonder as you're you're talking about this and your creation,
Speaker 1: because you're you're constantly creating things, sounds, words, music, like,
Speaker 1: how does this that inside of you influence your music? Well?
Speaker 1: For me, I think that the outside world is a
Speaker 1: reflection of our collective inner world. Right, So if you
Speaker 1: got anger and hatred inside you and gets reflected in
Speaker 1: and what the world looks like, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I was trying, always trying to purify, meditate my butt off.
Speaker 1: I've been spending some time as some monast theories and
Speaker 1: I saw that. Then you go do like a bunch
Speaker 1: of days. I did twelve days in solitude, you know
Speaker 1: it just just with myself, and you start to observe
Speaker 1: your own mind, and you see how wild it is
Speaker 1: and how negative it is sometimes and hateful it is sometimes,
Speaker 1: and you start to disidentify from it because this is
Speaker 1: just my my brain muscle talking. It's not me. And uh,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I just want to create more
Speaker 1: from more from that place, not my brain talking yammering
Speaker 1: in my mouth, more from that place of of connectedness.
Speaker 1: Love it so inspired. Right, look at you, guys, tam
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you for a second over there.
Speaker 1: And so I'm sitting at the table Tims on the
Speaker 1: other side of the table. Terms of tall, good looking fella,
Speaker 1: How tall are you too tall? Too tall? As a
Speaker 1: conflict resolution expert, that's your that's what you are, right like,
Speaker 1: that's I'm the messing that up because that's a cool name,
Speaker 1: like that's it. Yeah, kind of conflict resolution expert or
Speaker 1: somebody's teaking to get it. How do you even how
Speaker 1: was that even the thing that you go, hey, I
Speaker 1: can do this, Like I just wonder you go, I
Speaker 1: can resolve conflict? Like how did you start in that
Speaker 1: area of of of your career or your your heart,
Speaker 1: like where you want to fix things? Well, I was
Speaker 1: listening to what Mike and Jeremy had to say, and
Speaker 1: it really resonated with what I've observed over twenty five
Speaker 1: years um when I started it, I didn't start with
Speaker 1: this idea of becoming a conflict resolution person. I just
Speaker 1: sort of thought the world is pretty screwed up, and
Speaker 1: you see a lot of conflict emerging. This is around
Speaker 1: the end of the Cold War, So on one hand
Speaker 1: it was positive with the end of the Cold War,
Speaker 1: but also the Balkans and other countries are falling apart.
Speaker 1: And I often say, being the youngest child of a
Speaker 1: large family ever problem with authority. And I remember going
Speaker 1: to Eastern Europe in the region, thinking why don't these
Speaker 1: people get together with people who themselves had been through
Speaker 1: conflicts or transitions from dictatorship to democracy. It was Argentina
Speaker 1: and Chile and Spain after Franco. So with this very
Speaker 1: simple notion that there is a shared human experience that
Speaker 1: if you bring people together to see that others have
Speaker 1: struggled to change it come out the other side, that
Speaker 1: that could be really valuable. And so that's what began
Speaker 1: the journey. And when I started, there really was no
Speaker 1: failed or conflict resolution. And frankly, you know, the conflict
Speaker 1: is inherent in society, so it's really about how do
Speaker 1: you manage coexistence and and so we've worked in seventy
Speaker 1: five countries and one of the most important things I've learned,
Speaker 1: starting from a friend in Central America, he said, all
Speaker 1: conflict is fundamentally driven by exclusion. You know, when you
Speaker 1: don't feel safe in the world, you really can't engage
Speaker 1: in the world. Um. And then more recently we've started
Speaker 1: working with brain and behavioral scientists because they're sitting in
Speaker 1: these apps, in these silos with profound knowledge of what
Speaker 1: it is to be human, you know. And I was
Speaker 1: mentioning to somebody yesterday that it even shows which is
Speaker 1: interesting tied to twenty three and me, is that the
Speaker 1: same part of our brain that experiences trauma can't differractuate
Speaker 1: between physical and emotional trauma, So we experience uh, humiliation
Speaker 1: and exclusion as physical pain in our brains. So when
Speaker 1: you start I'm packing that you start to see how
Speaker 1: much all of this really connects. This reminds me of
Speaker 1: of some experiences I had meditating at the monastery. You
Speaker 1: feel anger come up and for and if you really
Speaker 1: track it, I would have a a thought first, and
Speaker 1: then you're absolutely right, you experience I mean, anger is
Speaker 1: a real thing in your body. For me, I feel
Speaker 1: in my left leg, I feel hot, right, and it's
Speaker 1: a it's a physical thing. It's not real to anyone else,
Speaker 1: but real to you. You know, Geman, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, how do we facilitate making people feel like
Speaker 1: they belong? Well, I think it's really interesting what you
Speaker 1: were talking about in terms of humiliation and exclusion, because
Speaker 1: absolutely right, when you're humiliated and you're excluded, then of
Speaker 1: course you've got no other option, right to but to
Speaker 1: fight your way out of it if that's the position
Speaker 1: you've been put in. And what a tragedy that is
Speaker 1: for those who are in that situation, especially young kids
Speaker 1: in schools. Right, And that's uh, you know, a real
Speaker 1: focus for us in terms of Peace Day. Um so,
Speaker 1: I you know, I think that you know, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting you know situation where we face and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got to do all we can to
Speaker 1: raise awareness of Peace Day, you know, manifest action on
Speaker 1: the day and get people involved. Tim, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think is holding us back from the
Speaker 1: piece that we're trying to create, Like what what's the
Speaker 1: first boulder in the road that we can move. We
Speaker 1: have this instinct to try to ascribe others intentions and
Speaker 1: who they are in the world, right, to try to
Speaker 1: feel safe. What we all want is to be seen
Speaker 1: is did you see under the under student and validated
Speaker 1: as we see ourselves in the world. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean this in any sort of like kumbayahweh. You know,
Speaker 1: science is now confirming that right. As one scientist said
Speaker 1: to me who got me interested in science, He said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not these rational beings with emotions at
Speaker 1: our core. We're emotionally based beings who can only think
Speaker 1: rationally when we fail that our identities are understood and
Speaker 1: valued in the world. And with that at the starting point,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've just seen that at every level of
Speaker 1: conflict and transformation around the world. And I've seen in
Speaker 1: our country now, and I think, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to recognize what fundamentally drives human nature is to be
Speaker 1: seen and validated and feel safe. We're wide for survival
Speaker 1: um our brains. It's really amazing our brains evolved to
Speaker 1: be predictive and not reactive. We're constantly predicting our environment,
Speaker 1: which is where do I fit in? Do I fit in?
Speaker 1: And when you don't fit in, you feel like you
Speaker 1: don't belong. So belonging is a fundamental biological need that
Speaker 1: humans have. And I think we'll begin to achieve peace
Speaker 1: when we recognize that that's what we all want and
Speaker 1: that's what the others around us wants. With twenty three
Speaker 1: and me, I've I've done it, and you know, you
Speaker 1: start to see your genetic genetic makeup, and you know,
Speaker 1: the things that you can learn about yourself to help
Speaker 1: even your things are prettyisposed to even. And so whenever
Speaker 1: I say that we're nine point five the same as
Speaker 1: everyone else, Mike, what do you think about that number?
Speaker 1: And what does that say to you? And that we
Speaker 1: kind of are the same and we can do the
Speaker 1: same thing. The first thing I think about when when
Speaker 1: you asked me that question was a few years ago
Speaker 1: and a few albums ago. I thought that my brand
Speaker 1: of sadness and suffering was unique. I thought, Man, I
Speaker 1: feel crummy sometimes, and no one understands that my sadness
Speaker 1: is very special. It's a special strand of sadness, but
Speaker 1: it's really not. We all know what it's like to
Speaker 1: feel lonely, to feel rejected, to feel alone, to feel
Speaker 1: not seen, and um, that in itself, you know, is
Speaker 1: a uniting factor for me. So I don't think I
Speaker 1: answered your question directly, but that's where I went with it. Well,
Speaker 1: what I think that even I took from you saying
Speaker 1: that is that, you know, the uniting factor is that
Speaker 1: like we kind of already are united, we just don't
Speaker 1: even know it yet. Like we're the same. We just
Speaker 1: have been told we're not. We've been shown that we're not,
Speaker 1: but we haven't been shown enough that we are the same,
Speaker 1: you know, And listening to you know, to listen to
Speaker 1: you guys talk about that, it's it's an education, you know,
Speaker 1: we were not educated yet on and on really our similarities,
Speaker 1: on how we love the same one and how he
Speaker 1: Mike's just talking about how he doesn't have this unique
Speaker 1: brand of sadness. We all have the same sadness. We
Speaker 1: just don't share it with each other, so we don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have the education of happiness, empathy,
Speaker 1: and so we feel alone when we're not. I feel
Speaker 1: the same sad that you feel. But I feel so
Speaker 1: alone because I don't know whether you feel that. And
Speaker 1: I love that's what you guys are out here doing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's an education, you know, you know, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: I'll come back over to you, like as you're here
Speaker 1: and you're working with Ihart Radio and twenty three and
Speaker 1: me like, when you leave here, what would be like
Speaker 1: a good takeaway for someone like myself and even for
Speaker 1: you to leave with people that are they're here And
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting that we talked about unity
Speaker 1: and we talked about education, and you know, education I
Speaker 1: think is absolutely key to humanity survival. I think if
Speaker 1: we want to live in a peaceful and sustainable world,
Speaker 1: then we've got to give the tools to young people
Speaker 1: to be able to resolve those issues in a really
Speaker 1: fundamental way. I mean, how can you expect it to
Speaker 1: all change if we haven't given the skills to young
Speaker 1: people to be able to do that, right, I mean so,
Speaker 1: so I think that the twenty one September is an
Speaker 1: incredible opportunity for unity. And as I said earlier, out
Speaker 1: that comes hope and a belief that we can climb
Speaker 1: the mountain together when we're one the strength in that,
Speaker 1: and out of that strength comes all kinds of incredible
Speaker 1: ideas that really can lift the level of consciousness around
Speaker 1: the fundamental issues. So my take away from this is
Speaker 1: that it's amazing how music, you know, can drive awareness
Speaker 1: of something and that where awareness manifest action, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm just really excited that you know, Mike reaching
Speaker 1: out to me and that beautiful poem that he wrote,
Speaker 1: and those amazing artists and my heart and twenty three
Speaker 1: and me have just told an awful lot of people
Speaker 1: about the twenty one September, and I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: by working together, you know, we can create peace one day.
Speaker 1: So you know, I would say to everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: bring the family together. We want peace every day, not
Speaker 1: just one day. So you know, tomorrow just think about
Speaker 1: bringing the family together. Who have you fallen out with,
Speaker 1: you know, get let's get together. We we change the
Speaker 1: quality of our relationships and our families, then that's absolutely everything.
Speaker 1: And if we're doing that all over the world, then
Speaker 1: nobody will be excluded. And that's real peacemaking. Peace and
Speaker 1: change and a better world is in our hands. It's
Speaker 1: not in the hands of governments. Mike gol may ask
Speaker 1: you this before we jump. Tell us what you're doing
Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio and twenty three and during the
Speaker 1: festival here four Peace day, like you keep you're here,
Speaker 1: like specifically what even doing well? Uh? I wrote a poem.
Speaker 1: I read it. It's awesome, thank you. I wrote a
Speaker 1: poem that you and a bunch of amazing artists man
Speaker 1: Mari carry carry underweard Sam Smith logic. I mean the
Speaker 1: list goes on already, line of they played this video
Speaker 1: of this list it up during the during the festival,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna put it out online. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: that was just start my little way of creating a
Speaker 1: piece of art for the for the day. That's cool. Man,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I read it. Love carries Yeah when
Speaker 1: she texted it over two minies, that's cool. Let's just
Speaker 1: say a second to talk about what you guys are
Speaker 1: doing individually. Tim, I'll start with you, like what you know,
Speaker 1: what's happening right now with you? Do you like to share?
Speaker 1: Maybe people will hear this and be inspired, or maybe
Speaker 1: they can go and be educated on something you're involved
Speaker 1: in right now. Well, you know, just picking up on
Speaker 1: what Jeremy was saying and what you're both saying earlier.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a project in the United States
Speaker 1: now called Prempting Racism. Turns out, this is what's great
Speaker 1: about work, and we brain scientists children from birth to
Speaker 1: three don't show any racial preference white and black. Around
Speaker 1: six months, children recognize difference, but they don't make a preference.
Speaker 1: So you have to teach children to either be racist
Speaker 1: or to be X, y and z, depending on context.
Speaker 1: And what we're doing is looking at, okay, what are
Speaker 1: those things that could literally create the conditions in the
Speaker 1: brain where children can see difference but not make a
Speaker 1: preference based on social construction. You know, the stereotype is
Speaker 1: really what drives it. And so I think the more
Speaker 1: we focus on children and recognize we actually have a
Speaker 1: capacity to shape their brains too. You know, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of shop out there in the world. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff there's in't cognitive ecosystem that's shutting
Speaker 1: us down, saying you can't be this, you can't be that. Well,
Speaker 1: we can actually flip that and put a cognitive ecosystem
Speaker 1: out there that says subtly and not so subtly, you
Speaker 1: can be whatever you want to be, and that actually
Speaker 1: works and that's really powerful. The scientists show what it works.
Speaker 1: It changes Jeremy, I ask you the same thing, man.
Speaker 1: I love that you can be whatever you want to be. Man,
Speaker 1: It's just totally right, isn't It is? What an awesome,
Speaker 1: wonderful thought that is. So yeah, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, we we're planning the twenty celebration. So it's
Speaker 1: been a hundred twenty three countries, nineteen years on the
Speaker 1: road and we've got our twenty years celebration on the
Speaker 1: twenty one September next year, so you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of preparations for that and that would be really exciting.
Speaker 1: We're also creating some education, new education materials. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got education resources at the moment being used in
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty countries and we want to expand
Speaker 1: on that. We want to embrace the global goals, the
Speaker 1: Great goals of the world's face in terms of creating
Speaker 1: materials around those which we're doing. And we also want
Speaker 1: to do a load of work in Japan, where I've
Speaker 1: just been recently, and and then we've done Screwed Creators
Speaker 1: and technology. I've been working with some technology companies for
Speaker 1: the last year and a half and we're just creating
Speaker 1: a new application, a new profiling system which is all
Speaker 1: about impact and values to really inspire and engage people
Speaker 1: and to say, look, let's look at a human being
Speaker 1: not just for the qualifications, but let let's look at
Speaker 1: them for the rich kaleid discope of beauty of color
Speaker 1: that they actually are. And that's all about their values
Speaker 1: and their impact, and let's look at people for that
Speaker 1: as much as how intelligent they are. So, you know,
Speaker 1: that's something we've been working on for a long time
Speaker 1: and I look forward to delivering it and hopefully working
Speaker 1: with my heart and twenty three and me and Mike
Speaker 1: again in the future, because this has been such a trip,
Speaker 1: and just to want to take this opportunity to thank everybody,
Speaker 1: Bobby and you for you know, letting me be here today.
Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding, this is awesome. Mike let's talk about
Speaker 1: your project for a second. Let's time in music. I
Speaker 1: was like about, let's talk what you got out there
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah, I got a new record coming
Speaker 1: out in January, and I just put the first single out.
Speaker 1: It's call Song About You. Yeah good. We were just
Speaker 1: talking before. I was just getting ready to ride the
Speaker 1: roller coaster again. You know, you feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 1: I feel honestly a little scared because you know, you
Speaker 1: do what you do waves of this right, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go, I'll go, you know, to the monastery or
Speaker 1: to the meditation retreating. And I've really been spending the
Speaker 1: last two years writing, you know, and recording, and then uh,
Speaker 1: you start to see it come out in the world,
Speaker 1: and you start to see that success coming your way,
Speaker 1: and it's a good problem to have, but it's a
Speaker 1: little scary, honestly, starting to get more busy if you
Speaker 1: know about that. Well, listen, oh you guys, My Jeremy,
Speaker 1: tim Like, I think I take in away something from
Speaker 1: this is sitting with you guys, Like it's really been
Speaker 1: a pleasure for me to like look at you guys
Speaker 1: in the eyeballs and see how invested you guys are
Speaker 1: and just making the world like one percent better, Like
Speaker 1: at a time. You know you're talking about climbing the mountain,
Speaker 1: each grip, you know it's about one percent better. Like
Speaker 1: I tell I live my life. I don't try to
Speaker 1: get a eight percent better. I try to do it
Speaker 1: one percent at a time. Those one percent started to
Speaker 1: add up before you know, at one percent, seven percent,
Speaker 1: seven percent, fourteen percent. All of a sudden, You're like, man,
Speaker 1: I've actually made a difference in me, which made a
Speaker 1: difference to somebody else. So I'm inspired by you guys,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I'm appreciate it that you guys are
Speaker 1: sitting here with me. Uh for everyone listening, commit to
Speaker 1: peace with us, share acts of peace using the hashtag
Speaker 1: peace Day and check out Mike, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood,
Speaker 1: Sam Smith, Jared Letto, Logic, Nick Jonas, myself by Buddy,
Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest, and so many more sharing a special message.
Speaker 1: Uh it's it's a message of piece. Let's go to
Speaker 1: iHeart radio dot com slash Peace Day. So thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate. We're gonna wrap it up, but I
Speaker 1: feel like, man, you gotta crushed it and I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go make some peace right now? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you guys, thanks for twenty three and
Speaker 1: me thanks to I Heart Radio. Thanks to you guys
Speaker 1: than we have this amazing recording studio in the middle
Speaker 1: of the daytime stage at the I Heart Radio Music Festival,
Speaker 1: and we asked attendees to share their messages of peace
Speaker 1: with us. But what we got with so much more.
Speaker 1: Take a lesson and get inspired to spread your own
Speaker 1: peace today. We are all connected, We're all connected, we
Speaker 1: are all we are all connected, connect all, we are
Speaker 1: all one. We are all one, one planet, one race,
Speaker 1: one consciousness. And I am one person taking one action
Speaker 1: to get us closer to peace, one day, closer closer
Speaker 1: to piece, one day to piece, one day. Who will
Speaker 1: you make peace with today? Will you make Who will
Speaker 1: you make peace with? Today? Is there someone you would
Speaker 1: like to make peace with? I myself would like to
Speaker 1: make peace with my stepfather. I'd really like to make
Speaker 1: peace with my half brother. We've got in a really
Speaker 1: big fight and our share DNA could really bring us
Speaker 1: back together. The one person that I want to make
Speaker 1: peace with it it's my mom because I will not
Speaker 1: so good lately. So love you, Mom. I hope to
Speaker 1: forgive myself today. I battle every day with the struggle
Speaker 1: of thinking that I'm not doing enough, and I hope
Speaker 1: one day that I can forgive myself and be proud
Speaker 1: of everything that I've overcome and how far I've come
Speaker 1: since my battle with cancer. Your fellow man is fighting something,
Speaker 1: no matter what way, shape, or form it is, They're
Speaker 1: fighting something deep down and they need your help. Just
Speaker 1: be more forgiving and give people a benefit of a doubt,
Speaker 1: and do your best to help people when you can.
Speaker 1: We're all genetically alike. As cliche as it is, it's love.
Speaker 1: Love is the only thing that can bring us that
Speaker 1: extra point five percent together, whether that's a smile or
Speaker 1: a wave or a simple hello um to someone who's
Speaker 1: a different race, different ethnicity, different age, anything. Humanity can
Speaker 1: just look at love and not look at hatred and
Speaker 1: what separates us, and could just look at love and
Speaker 1: connectivity and stop judging other people and just control ourselves
Speaker 1: because the only people that we can control, the only
Speaker 1: happiness that we can control with ourselves. So just be happy.
Speaker 1: I love everyone else. Learning one new thing about someone
Speaker 1: else could curve so much ignorance and fear and hatred
Speaker 1: from the world and bring us all together. And I
Speaker 1: know at the end, one day we can achieve world
Speaker 1: peace together. I want to dig in more on today's
Speaker 1: topics and guests. Check our show notes and if you
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Speaker 1: podcast with twenty three and me. I'm Bobby going. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening.