WEBVTT - Minnesota Rep. Hortman and Husband Killed 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.800 Yea from. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:10.360 You as your question. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.440 Let's just keep it real straight shot with no chaser. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.400 I'm gonna get a little bit rougher. I'm here for it. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.360 Those who really believe in the American process, all of 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.960 us straight shot no chase, cut with your girl, Testlam 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.320 figure out on the Black Effect Podcast Network at work, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.479 and everybody straight shot no Chaser on the Black Effect 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.360 Podcast Network. I love love, love, love love my intro 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:35.319 Marcella's is here. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.720 We be jamming. It's a bop. But I was thinking 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.520 about changing the name, you know, just to testlim figure out. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:47.120 What do you think about that? Follow the podcast? Uh? 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:49.360 I like, I don't know. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.520 I got so used to straight shot no Chaser. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.400 You know, I always I always liked all these tests 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.040 because just keep the brand consistent. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.960 I'm really thinking about that, guys, y'all let me know 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.880 what y'all think. I'm just thinking. I do love but 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.600 when people are trying to find me online, I guess 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.160 I want things to be easier, you know, to follow 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.160 one whether it's my webson, it's really following the Oprah model. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.640 Everything was Oprah, and when it wasn't Oprah, it was 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.600 Hart Poe spelled with Oprah backwards, you know, Hartfow Productions. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.200 But the brand is really the name, guys, And so 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.200 I'm thinking about We're five years in the game, and 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.800 I'm just thinking about possibly changing just to you know, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.039 just to sell some figure those show. Just keep it 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.959 playing and simple, I do. There will still always be 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.120 a straight shot, no chaser style to my commentary. That's expected, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.400 but I am considering that. I don't know why it 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:41.920 just brought that to the people, but I wanted y'all 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.160 to know what I was thinking about as we you know, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.640 kind of move forward. And I guess because I saw 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.280 a couple of other people change their names horrible decisions, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.920 went to Decisions Decisions Ta Mika Mallory and my son. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.600 They used to be street politicians. They went to TMI. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.520 So I watched a couple of them kind of change 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.120 the name and the brand, and I'm like, well, I 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.800 didn't really know that was an option. Maybe I knew 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.520 that too, just to keep the you know, I know, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.840 I need a new photo shoot, a new just kind 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.560 of rebranded and see what we want to do, you know, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.640 with the next five years, hopefully if they'll have me. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.760 So shout out to black at their podcast Network. Thank 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.320 you Marcellus for being here as always a. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:28.200 Lot intro as well, because if you if you want to. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.600 Definitely ain't changing it, you know, saying straight shot, JA, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.200 it'll be tens figure o show show, you know some 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.160 live like that, and we'll just keep We're gonna keep 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:38.960 the brand. The brand is definitely gonna be the same. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.720 But you know, a lot went on last week, A 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.760 lot went on. I want to sing condolences before I 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.079 just get through other stories that happened. I think the 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:55.680 biggest story that has happened is news of the manhunt 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.840 for the gunmen who shot Minnesota lawmakers. This is just 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.640 unfortunate news, so very sad, and I kind of wanted 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:10.679 to just go over that story here in case those 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.799 of you who because a lot of people just kind 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.399 of went up. This kind of went under the radar, 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.200 because even Marcella, she was like, oh, I hadn't really 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.000 heard about that, so it just it just happened, and 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.920 so I just wanted to, you know, give a little 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.040 breakdown on that. Fifty seven year old Bands Voulter, the 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.560 suspect in the assassinate assassination of Minnesota lawmaker and the 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.680 shooting of another State Representative Melissa Hortman, the top Democrat 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.200 in the Minnesota House, and her husband was shot dead 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.480 in an apparent politically motivated assassination. Governor Tim Wall said 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.120 Democratic state Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:51.040 by the same person. The couple survived the attack. So 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.320 I guess I'm kind of confused because it's saying that 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.760 they survived the attack, and God's bear with me. I'm 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.520 looking at this in real time because then it's also 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.840 saying they were assassinated. So just as we go through 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.440 this in real time, let me just get some more information. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.360 A police officer dressed like a police A man dressed 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.960 like a police officer came out of Hortman's home and 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.400 shot at police before escaping. He had been driving would 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.159 appear to be a police car. They said that the 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.880 police found writings in the suspects car that included a 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:28.480 hit list of nearly seventy names. Those names were mostly 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:35.000 Democrats or figures tied to abortion rights, like Representative Omar 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:45.000 and Senator Tina Smith. So this is a real unfortunate, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.960 unfortunate news. I know. I saw a couple of clips 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.680 of I guess folks saying that this blood is on 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:58.960 the Yeah, they were killed. I don't know why saying 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.440 they survived. I don't know wide CNN has it down 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.000 because they they were absolutely murdered. So I just want 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.200 to make sure I just recapped the guys, and I apologize. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.159 I'm reading these stories as they come in real time. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.599 But yes, the fatal shooting of Minnesota State Rep. Hortman 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.320 and her husband overnight. Oh, this is where I was confused. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.880 It says Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also injured. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:26.640 So two other people were injured, two we had passed away. Wow. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.839 So it says according to the medical Exana Hortman died 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.720 of multiple gunshots at her home, her husband marked out 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.240 of multiple gunshot wounds at the hospital. And again they've 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:42.680 identified the suspect. And this is just a mess. This 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.440 is a mess. It says she was the top, like 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.839 I just mentioned, a member of the Democratic Party. Minnesota 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.760 House is evenly divided sixty seven sixty seven, and Democrats 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.159 hold one seat to the majority, so it is definitely 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.920 a house divided when we talk about state reps. So 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.440 this is just unfortunate news. And I'm just kind of 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.719 reading this in real time and guys, make sure you 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.039 know when I give these stories that you go back 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 and you know, do updates, because depending on when this 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.839 podcast was recorded, things do change, you know, every minute 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.080 of the minute. So I want to make sure you 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.520 guys don't get misinformation. But right now they are looking 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.200 for that, and guys, it's just a lot going on. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.800 I guess we can say this is expected. The escalation 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.839 by violence begets violence. And when everything is constantly you know, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.640 life or death issues, what abortion, immigration, all of these 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.400 issues that apparently this guy on the right feels passionate about, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.159 they're taking it to another level. But what's the surprise? 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.640 You know when people say, I can't believe I saw 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.599 somebody coming out. I can't believe this country is coming 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.640 to coming to I don't know, like this is America, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.640 you know what I mean? This is this is who 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.720 they are and who's been So I'm I don't I 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.480 don't know what that means when we say what is 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.560 coming to right. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.120 And this just shows you that people really do take 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.320 politics very very serious. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:12.680 You know. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.320 Yeah, some people say they're not gonna get in wrong 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.400 with politics, but as you can see, it means a 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.680 lot to. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.480 A lot of people. Yeah means a lot. That's why, guys, again, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.680 right now, with everything going on, I can't encourage you 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.800 enough to yes, I want you to stay safe. At 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.160 the end of the day, though, you cannot be paralyzed 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:41.120 to the point that you just, you know, feel you 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.880 can't do anything at all. You just cannot forget about 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:49.560 your local and your state seats and how to get involved, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.160 especially to turn some of this shit down, if nothing 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.880 else folding and getting in the fetal position and saying 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.120 I'm done with it. I don't think that's the way 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.920 I do. I think that knowing how to get involved 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.800 in you know, local government, state government, What positions can 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.160 you be a part of. How can you get if 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.480 you don't want to be the candidate, how do you 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.239 get somebody else, how do you support them from a distance, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.000 whether that's anonymously public, whatever it is. Shout out to 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.120 those they came to the training that we had on fourteenth, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.400 which we're going to do a podcast just on that, 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.280 so just look for that. I want to recap the training. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.160 But shout out to those who are trying to make 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.080 a difference. Because at the same time this weekend there 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.840 was no kings rallies all over the country. They said 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.199 they were largely peaceful. Tens of thousands of Americans joined 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.240 No Kings protests against the Trump administration. About two thousand 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.600 protests and rallies were planned. They filled the streets of 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.280 US cities and towns and coordinate the No Kings event 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.040 National Day of Peaceful Protests. If you followed me on Instagram, 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.319 you saw where revolt news and I posted the sheriff 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.720 that said, if you play there's something paraphrasing you play 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.400 games with them, you will we will be notifying your 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.640 family and your remains. If throw a brick, a fire bomb, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.120 or pointed gun at one of our deputies, we will 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.080 be notifying your family where to collect your remains at 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.840 because we will kill your graveyard death. They were very 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.080 clear that they're not playing no games. They will shoot you. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.280 And people say, you know what, They're not going to 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.920 be intimidated. They're gonna go out, They're gonna piece of 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.640 the protests and you know, shut out to those that did. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.800 There's a lot of folks, particularly in the black community, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.320 that was like, no, y'all got it. Black people have 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.000 done enough enough protests and enough getting bit by the dogs, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.600 enough water holes and enough this or that, and they 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.280 say they over it. You know what I find so 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:41.400 interesting a lot of the political class that have much 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:47.400 larger platforms than me. When BB Harris did not win, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 they were the first ones out there in their grieving 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.960 process saying it's above me. Now. There were the first 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.680 ones out there who were upset. There were the first 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.080 ones out there to say, you know what, Black people 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.480 were done, we're resting. They were the first you remember 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.200 me talking about this in real time, or the first 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.360 ones out there when they were saying we done with it, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.400 we taking a break, we taking are because remember I 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.480 was saying, okay, why y'all resting? They're doing X y Z. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.680 So now the political class has now shifted back to 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.160 wanting to wake everybody up, and I'm saying, no, y'all 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.120 actually told them to rest, and that's what they're doing. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.720 Marcella's resting. They're resting. You remember y'all told them to rest. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.520 But now that you decide it to say, you know what, shit, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.200 I guess we need to get us a contract or too, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.000 or I guess we really don't need to be Now 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.920 you want everybody to get up because you say get up. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.760 You told these people to rest. So they're resting, get 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.520 boots and fans out and everything. Fans out and everything. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.360 So let us get in the rest posture. Now that 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.840 you decided, Now okay, now we need to do something. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.640 Now we need to know, y'all. With these multi millions 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.400 of followers y'all jumped on kable news, I'm talking about 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.640 these black political class y'all said white people did this, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.000 as fans did this, agians did that. And it's so 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.480 amazing because now I'm watching these same folks that were 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.880 sitting up there pissed saying this online now saying, well, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.439 you know, guys, it wasn't all Hispanics where you know, guys, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.360 it wasn't all that y'all. The ones told me that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:15.200 it was yeah, and people actually believe you. Yeah, and 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.559 it was fact it was. But now you're saying what, No, guys, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.640 come on, we no, you told them the rest, So 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.240 now they're resting. See, I'm saying the same people I've 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.880 been saying Marcel before this, come on in, let's focus 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.520 on local. Come on in. Let's so I Hey, I'm 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.240 if people want to rest, rest, if you don't want 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.200 to fight the federal monster, rest I'm not telling no 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.720 black people run out there and do nothing. Do what 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.080 you feel compelled to do. What I am telling you 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.440 is what I'm always telling you is you still got 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.440 to send your child to somebody school district. You still 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.680 got to operate your business. So you need an at 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.959 least at the very least, know your city commissioner is 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.600 and what plans they have for business? Who's building what? 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.040 How do you get involved in that? What's next on 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.960 the on the list, what's next on the agenda? You 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.200 know what's coming down the pipe? How can I get involved? 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.679 Those are the kind of things I'm pushing. Those are 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.920 kind of things that I've seen work personally in my favor. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.559 Oh okay, they building an amway, Okay, we got two 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.839 three years. Let me go in now and see who's 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.960 the builders? Who? How can I get a contract? How 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.720 can i you know, how can I make myself? 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:24.800 No? 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.840 Where do I need to go? Where are the mixers, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.760 the town halls, the planning that you know, let me 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.360 get involved in. Those are the things I'm trying to 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.760 tell you how to do on the local level and 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.840 the state level, but local at best, because life still 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.520 goes on, so you're still going to need to be 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.280 able to know what your mayors are doing, what your 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.240 city commission doing, what your school board is doing at best. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.080 And that has nothing to do with standing out on 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.760 no protests about no Trump that hey, it's above me now, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.520 y'all got it on the federal level, y'all got on 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.160 a level. And the reason why I'm saying to myself 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.320 because I can't organize everybody, I'm telling you what my 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.360 small part is going to be right. I'm trying to 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.439 take those that at least want to have some understanding. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.640 You live in Atlanta, So if Mayor Andre is elected again, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.960 you should know these are the plans that he got 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.480 for Atlanta. These are the programs he's trying to run. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.600 These are the things he's trying to do. From a 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.160 business standpoint, how can you get involved? Or from a 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.319 citizen standpoint, how can you benefit? Because Atlanta gonna still 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.480 be Atlanta even with everything else going on. So that's 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.520 the thing. So they should have been preaching that message 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.439 the whole time. But see, they was focused on getting 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.040 everybody called up on federal getting everybody called up on 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.400 VP Harris for everybody fall in love with Barack Obama 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.960 was Okay, all, that's fine, but you weren't giving people 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.080 the local tools on what they need to do to 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.560 get engaged. So now they're just resting across the board, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.719 and you helped rock them asleep. Yep. You helped rock 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:56.319 them to sleep by selling a dream, by making them 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.480 think that something that you knew damn well was pretty 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.800 much impossible to accomplish. You a a ministreint just from 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.240 an operations standpoint, but you got so caught up in 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:13.679 your invites, your white house, your access. You're wanting X 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.000 y Z to know, you to want and guess what 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.520 the streets is telling them, Marcellas, they ain't right, Guess 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.080 what the streets is telling them. Y'all organize among y'allself, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.120 y'all go ahead and get y'all forty fifty people in 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.760 the room, or the same forty people y'all talk to 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.680 every year, y'all. Y'all got that, yep? Because the streets 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:40.680 is so depressed and so suppressed and depressed that they 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.000 literally don't know what to do. And this is why 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.360 my training in the next podcast is gonna break that down. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.240 This is why we started the very basics of just 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.320 understanding the very basics. There's gonna be some folks it's 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.400 too basic for me. Good. I'm talking to the people 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.200 that need to understand the very because those are the 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.560 ones we need to bring in because your political class 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.440 y'all ain't got to figure it out. So we need 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.040 to go find some other people to figure it out. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.680 We need some fresh blood. And fresh blood don't mean age. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.400 As you know, Marcella. We got people in our training 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.440 a fifties, sixties. We need no people that's saying, Okay, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.200 I need to be a part of this, and I 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.600 don't know how, but let me be a part of this, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.440 and I guess we'll just get into it now. You know, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.400 the training that we had excellent guys. I'm reading the feedback. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.960 I only had one person on the survey, Marcello's that 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.680 said it was a little too basic. He's looking, you know, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.720 forward to the webinars, which I understand. I'm glad you 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.800 know he said that so I could know. But everybody 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.000 else was like, no, this was basic stuff that I 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.960 need to know. A lot of pep Marcella's don't know. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.560 You tell me, like a lot of people don't really 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.480 understand the governor and the state rep and the state senator, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.840 and then the local positions versus the federal position. A 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.880 lot of peop don't undertand a lot people don't understand differenttween 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.160 an organizer and a activists. A lot of people don't 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.160 really get like what that really means. So of course 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:02.119 one was about roles and responsibilities for candidate's campaign work, activists, organizing. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.080 People love the SWAT, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.640 We're gonna get more into that. I can do a 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.440 webinar just on SWAT alone, but I'm just giving people 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:21.880 the basics. So you tell me, marcels. You went to 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.440 the first training in twenty twenty two. It still was 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.080 the same curriculum, but it had my spin to it. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.400 So with that, I know you kind of biased, try 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.880 not to do close, but you were in the class. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.760 You've been in the class. This time you were serving 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.440 more as a moderator role, but I know you were 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.280 still listening to the class you know as well, but 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.000 just you know, kind of helping fewer questions. What would 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:48.600 you say the difference between the virtual and the in person? 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:49.640 And I know you asked it in one of my 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.680 other episodes, like we still want to do in person. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.720 I think that's important, but virtual really gives me a 0:16:54.800 --> 0:17:01.760 chance to touch so many people across the bold and 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.480 help people. Matter of fact, we had one question on 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.679 people was asking about delegates in Virginia and I had 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.119 to kind of you know, because everybody can name it 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.840 different and showing how those terms are interchangeable. And you 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.639 know all of that, But give me your perspective from 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.880 the in person versus the virtual, and if you learn 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.240 anything new, even though you rock right beside, I mean, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.639 you're on all you listen to all my content. You 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.680 been in the class, you pretty much know a lot 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.840 by sitting next to me. But did you have any 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.479 aha moment of something that maybe came to you that 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.919 you didn't previously know, either for myself or something somebody 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.120 shared in the class. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:44.840 Well, I would say the difference is with the virtue. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.960 I noticed it was a lot of more questions than 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.480 the in person one, and it's probably because we all were, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.040 you know, together on the virtual versus in person. You know, 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.040 everybody was split up into different you know, different classes 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:05.920 and stuff like that. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.159 A big class, but you still had a big class. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.240 You still had questions in the class. So it's not 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:12.880 I don't know about being split up. When you say 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.440 all together, you said in the in the in person 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.439 organizing room with about one hundred people. So I want 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.280 to make sure you I'm clear on what you're saying, meaning. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.400 Like, okay, so this this, this particular the virtual one, right, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.679 everybody is on. Everybody is on in the same. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.120 You know, in the same room. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.720 So it wasn't like that when we was you know, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.840 when we did it in person, you know, you had 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.640 to you had to organize the tractor operative and the candidate, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.840 so you know, it was I'm just saying, it seems 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.760 like on the virtual one it was more questions because 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.879 and the one I was in, uh, in person, it 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.240 wasn't as many questions as it was with this one 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.040 on the virtual, which was actually good because they made 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:02.520 the class more interactive. I think people wasn't wasn't afraid 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.879 to ask the questions online versus in person. You know, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.080 some people may be a little shy, may get a 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:10.960 little nervous. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.480 So let me help clarify your thought. Then, So what 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.320 you're saying is because they're online, they were a little shy, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.959 not because we were all together. You understand what I'm 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.959 saying you were saying it was more questions because they 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.680 were all we were all together. No, it's not about 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.400 being all together. The answer is it was more questions 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.280 because people are not as shy. You understand what I'm saying, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.200 Just not because we're all together. What I would say 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.800 with being all together is the diversity of questions, meaning 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.320 you had people who wanted to run with organizers or 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.960 you know, So the diversity of questions is what it 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.040 means when we're all together. But your main point of 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.359 having more questions is because people are less shy to 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:55.159 ask questions in a chat opposed to raising their hands. Correct. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.680 I've been training. I've been training one of the things. 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.520 So communication is what I loved and I love to 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.679 help people, you know, help people define their points, you know, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.600 with clarity and concise and so that's where you get 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.119 a lot of that in the train as well. But 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.400 just trying to, you know, make sure we're landing, because 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:13.919 I know what you're saying, but I want to make 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.800 sure you know how to articulate it so that if 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.040 somebody asks, there's more Your bottom line is there's more 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.920 questions because people are less intimidated to ask questions, and 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.520 that's an actual real theory. Getting a master's an adult education, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.639 they teach you that adults are very most likely not 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.040 to ask questions, which is why when people try to 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.800 shade on online class and oh you can cheat online 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.520 and you know djmv off somebody online class, you actually 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.639 get more out of online because of the reason you 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.600 just said. People are more compelled to ask because they're 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.080 not shy, you know, they want to get it out, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.960 They want to say you even though it in the class, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.879 like anybody want to come up and say anything. We 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.240 had one person come up, but everybody else didn't have 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.040 anything to say, but they were active throughout the class, 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.640 you know, so that that's the beauty. And some people 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.280 didn't say anything at all, they just watched, you know. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.760 So I am very excited by it. Like I said, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.240 if you're in politics, that first one might have been 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.960 a little bit boring for you because you know, positions. 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.760 But for those who really like no, I really didn't 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.800 understand or I didn't it was very necessary Mud tell 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.600 us that we start at the beginning because just like 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.760