WEBVTT - Christmas Lists & Relationship Advice 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.120 Man, what's hand him? Man? You got more? Shawn Beisma Lynch. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:05.800 Doug Hendrickson and Gavin Knewsome. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.160 And you're listening to politics, you're knowing to be you 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:23.680 known to be right before Thanksgiving. Every Thanksgiving, the week 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.600 of Thanksgiving, we do a series of pardons and commutations 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.760 and one of the great gifts no bs like. It's 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:36.879 an amazing, amazing, amazing experience picking up the phone and 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.960 making the calls to dozens of people that for years 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.000 and years and years have wanted to clean their record 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.840 and turn the page in their life and to let 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.760 them know that they officially have been pardoned. And so 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.520 I was on the phone coincidental to this, this hunter 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.520 pardon with I think it was eighteen or so. I 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.000 can't remember that number, but it's roughly about eighteen people 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.840 and give them a call. I got hung up on 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.880 a number of times. One person said, fuck you stood. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.600 I was like, Jesus, I was calling to tell you 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:11.000 I parted you. Another person goes, yeah, send me the paperwork. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.800 I'm like, wow, okay, I have no gratitude. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.959 They don't believe it. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.759 They don't believe it. Other people like, literally, I'll get 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.440 a call back because I don't have a block thing said, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.520 is this really you? I thought it was my buddy Bob. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.319 He was pulling my leg. I'm totally embarrassed. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.280 Man, that's amazing. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.840 Other people literally it's other people literally say there's like silence. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.160 I'm like, I'm sorry, are you there? It's Kevin. He goes, 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.759 if this is really you? And if you're not pulling 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.680 my leg? And then there start crying. He's like, and 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.640 it's like a maze. And then I'm starting to cry. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.920 I can't even talk because it's so intense. You don't 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.200 know what this means to my kids. I can look 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.080 at my kids in the eye. For thirty years, I've 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.480 made a mistake thirty years ago. I've done everything right, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.000 but I've never felt right. This is the first time 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.480 I felt, you know, and like you're like Jesus and 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.520 you hang up and you sit there. I said, I 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.200 swear I got truth. I'm sitting in my office by myself, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.880 and most folks had left the office. I'm just looking outside, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.760 going I'm the luckiest goddamn son of a bitch in 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.440 the world to be able to make these calls and 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.400 to have the gift of just a simple decision. Uh 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.160 and and and to give people that that that that 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.640 second chance in their life. So, man, Marshaun, to your point, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.200 those things matter and you take them very seriously. There's 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:29.200 something reverential about that process. Commutations, about community of sentence, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.760 about a pardon, about cleaning a record. So they just 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.200 you got to be careful about politicizing. And I guess 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.600 that goes to my concern more broadly, is because I'm 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.400 a practitioner in this space. It's not intellectual uh and 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.160 it's it's real power uh and it should be used, 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.000 you know, sparingly, but it's very powerful. It's just as 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.880 a human expression. It's it's one of the no bullshit, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.000 it's I swear I sat there saying, for all the 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.600 crap you take in this job, you have moments like 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.560 this where where you're talking to human beans and you 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.960 feel like you've changed their lives. And to have that 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.440 ability to do that so easily, Man, what a gift. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.600 This rewarding huh, next level brother, some pretty good perks 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.720 to the job being huh yeah. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.760 And that's like that's that's you know, any getting reservations 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.880 or using Doug to get a free you know, you know, 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.560 get to the bar or something. It ain't about that 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:22.480 brother that. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.799 He's going for show. There's one dude you don't want 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:31.560 to see with power, oh ship. I could only imagine 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:32.519 I would. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.280 I wouldn't last very long. More sean it would. It 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:35.839 would last maybe two weeks in the job. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.400 But hey, by the way, I don't want to believe 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.800 for everybody, shots for you. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.480 We're keeping this place and open on that long. We're 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.400 getting the planes. I don't care if I can't take 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.080 your private plane. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.040 I'm taking it. Let's go. We're going on vacation. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.360 Okay, you guys are talking private planes. I'm Jesus Christ 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.960 kind of lives you to live. I'm sitting there, you know, grinding, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.520 doing pardons and pearls every week. By the way, I 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.200 got some good paroles this week. About sixty paroles this week. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.640 I mean people like you, this Doug. I've shared some 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.280 of those with you in confidence broad strokes because we 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.800 don't we don't break. I don't, I don't use names. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.599 You ain't seen nothing like this group, you know, like 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:27.600 bodies dismembered, the whole thing. He's tough, world marshawn, no bullsh. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.520 I will tell you that right now we don't let 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.200 that person out. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.360 We keep that one in. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.200 Back to the Menendez brothers too, because no bullshit. It's 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.000 like it's those are the high profile things and then 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.479 the low profile stuff, but the things that people don't 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:45.640 even realize that happened every single goddamn day. Man, human condition, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.640 Doug Man. So we got a bunch of questions this week, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.400 and I know for Marshawn, got a bunch of questions. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.120 I think, Doug, there are a few coming my way. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.800 But I didn't understand one of these damn questions about 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.680 Black Monday. I was like, is this some shopping network thing? 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.360 And then I realized it has had nothing to do 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.360 with shopping unless you're shopping for a new head coach 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.360 or something. What the hell is this Black Monday thing? 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:07.719 Yeah? 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.040 Black Monday, Cavin is notoriously the Monday after the last 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.920 NFL game in a few weeks, and that is when 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.760 the coaches in the gms have not been fired get fired. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.000 It's a brutal day for you know, everybody in the organization. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.800 But these owners now, as you know, these guys want 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.080 to win, and so it used to be the head 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.160 coaches gyms get a couple of years, two, three, four 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:32.119 years to build a team. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.600 Now sometimes they're hired one year and done. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.640 So you got black Monday probably as media's maybe six 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.440 seven eight coaches getting fired. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.480 Four or five gyms get fired, and. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.960 A lot of coaches try to come in and revamp things. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.800 But the interesting part is is you know these owners 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.760 looking for a quick fix. You're looking for leaders, you're 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.440 looking for CEOs, looking for coaches. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.039 More than a they don't, they don't work out. They fail. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:56.920 There's a lot of number twos out there and not 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 a lot of number ones who they fail A lot. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.680 A lot of these coaches fail, a lot of the 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.760 gms fail. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.360 With a year to get an understanding it is, and 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.920 you come into a fucked up position. How is that 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:08.480 a fail? 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:09.800 Thank you? I'm with you. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.800 You don't have it. You don't have it. You don't 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.280 even had a time to fail. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.440 Because you have You have owners that don't really know 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.560 the sport and they want to win right away and 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.400 they don't they don't need patience. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.760 Who haven't won a Super Bowl? Which team well. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.280 Other than lately case and uh, I don't know who 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:28.840 else is wanted to be says Casey Leady. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.800 I said who hasn't. I mean, it's teams that ain't 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:32.600 even you fear me. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.680 No, it's a it's a it's a brutal thing. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.000 They've been going through this for forever. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.560 Jets are a prime example. This man, you get rid 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:40.680 of the coach in the middle of the year, and 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.040 then they keep losing, losing, losing. The pressure on that 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.880 how about the pressure on him on Johnson as the 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.720 owner of the Jets after what more losing seasons than 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.200 any other franchise the last decade or so. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.479 Well, it's interesting, it's interesting question, Gavin, whoever asked that? 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.440 And I do want to parallel back to you quickly, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.040 because if you look about a lot of these guys 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.960 that get these jobs, new coaches and new gms, they 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.040 fail for a couple of reasons. One is, yes, as 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.200 more Shawn's point, the team's not very good, it's tough 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.640 to build it back quickly. But they also fail because 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.600 they're afraid to make decisions and they're afraid to really 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.640 be that person. And so do you find the same 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.000 thing in politics? Do you see mayors or governors that 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.679 come in that kind of afraid to lead. I've always 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.160 admired what you've done, You're right, wrong and different. You're 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.480 going to do something and stand by it. But do 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.200 you see a lot of people in your industry that 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.080 get that number one job and then they don't deliver? Oh? 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.480 Yeah, but I think it has I can't help but 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.800 thinking about and forgive me sort of fixated on the 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.840 Jets and the context that some of their struggles over 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.200 the last many years, predating even Rogers. But it's interesting 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.640 in the context your question because I think about the 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.440 times you don't make decisions or when those decisions have 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.800 consequences as it relates to people that are on your 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.920 team that have outsized influence on that decision making. So 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.440 even the owner of a team, even the head coach 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.400 of a team, sometimes doesn't have that ability to make 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.000 those decision And I think about, honestly, the impact of 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.000 some of the decisions that you wonder are being made 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.680 by the GM or the owner of the Jets, or 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.600 by their quarterback, and how you balance that and the 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:19.840 consequences of indecision or decision that you outsource to a superstar. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.280 Think about Lebron. You think about some of the most 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:27.680 high profile and prolific leaders on teams and a lot 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.160 of owners you think they have the real control, but 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.720 a lot of that's outsourced to the folks that are 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.080 out there on the field. And honestly, I think about 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.560 that in the context of politics as well, and how 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.000 you sort of balance all of those things. And you know, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.880 our fields not just a board of directors of one 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.920 hundred and twenty people that I don't pick even if 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.720 I did, how do you get consensus with one hundred 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.040 and twenty people on the legislature and then you forty 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.280 million people that you quote unquote serve that pay your salary. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.600 So it's a different construct, but it's the same I 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:04.880 think fundamental A challenge is balancing that decision making in 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.559 the context of how that decision making ultimately will be 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:08.680 implemented and absorbed. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.960 We'll also look at Marshawn. I know, we talked about it. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.880 You know, when John Schneider traded for Marshawn, it revamped 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.439 the entire organization. They get to they win a Super Bowl, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.240 get back to another one. There's only one other team 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.040 at that time that was interested to trading from Marshawn. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.199 That was Green Bay and a lot had to do 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.760 with Aaron Rodgers. Okay, because the Packers never traded for people. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.560 Back then, they still didn't trade for it. But the 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.800 point I'm trying to make is that you had one team, Gavin, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.880 that was willing to jump out and say, you know 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.320 what I'm going not there's no chance on his talent, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.240 but there's a chance on making it all work together. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.240 But they did it. Look what happened to that team. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.120 But a lot of these gms come in and are 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.280 afraid to trade up in the draft. They're afraid to 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.400 get a fragian, they're afraid to take a gamble on 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 a player. And you can't win if you don't do that. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.079 You can't sit back and say I'm gonna take my 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.640 eight picks and not go into free agency and not 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:55.680 gamble and do something. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.120 You have to be able to will and to roll 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:57.840 the dice a little. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.280 Bit pretty you think about it with the Niners, that 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.920 with Trey, with Lance and the first round draft choice, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.400 and you know, and and so far their GM is 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.959 living to fight another day. And some you're to your point, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.480 you know, you know, you get you know, miss one 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.920 hundred percent of the shots you don't take. But the 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.720 flip side of that, as well as some sort of 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.600 legendary screw ups as it relates to some of those 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.280 picks or draft moving up in a draft, uh, and 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.520 then falling flat on your face and you destroy your 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.720 franchise for a decade because you skipped someone of you know, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.800 epic talent to get someone no talent. So look, decisions 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.760 are tough, leadership's tough, but the buck stops. And it's 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.040 I think the buck in this case is next level 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.040 to your point about these owners, now, I mean they're 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.280 you know this is I mean, these guys always get 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.199 what they want in their private lives and they expect 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.600 when they own a franchise that they should be able 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.400 to get that on the field. Uh. And uh, it's 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.960 it's that's this short termism is not good for the 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.000 sport uh and obviously not good for these franchises. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.640 Well, I got a question a few Marshawn. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.199 This has comes from Stacy and she wants some relationship 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.120 advice for Marshawn. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.400 Oh, the only one who lives does not Mary. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.319 So here's the question. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.160 I am currently in a long distant relationship with a 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.440 guy in Oakland, I live in New Hampshire. Whenever I 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.240 text him first, which is rare, he takes sometimes hours 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.000 to respond and tells me is busy with his work 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.280 on the flip side. When he texts me first, he 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.240 expects me to drop everything I'm doing and immediately talk 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.120 to him or else he becomes our rate. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.640 What do I do about the double standard? Give me 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:45.600 some counsel. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.040 That's to you, Marshawn, Oh gosh, this. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.400 Relationship advice? 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:54.120 You fear me. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.160 I'm not even I think it's just because they're in 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.240 front of town. And I mean if he said he 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.440 was busy, I mean, if he ain't gave you no 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.160 other reason to not believe that, then yeah, I mean 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.920 you got to take it for face value. But you know, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.440 women got something called up women's intuition that they be 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.440 learning with. And if that's what you feel, maybe you 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.439 gotta make your decision. And we were just talking about decision. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.120 Gotta make it and you gotta stick with it. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.679 And by the way, maybe she can move out of 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.439 New Hampshire. I've been there a couple of times. It's 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.000 not a lot of New Hampshire's unbelievable. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.000 Do you by the way, Hey, no, no, you don't 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.080 go hate on New Hampshire. Man, what a beautiful damn state. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.199 I mean long distant relationships. I mean, you know, I 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.560 mean they can be hard. They can be hard, for sure. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:46.400 You gotta have a lot of trust, a lot of trust, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.520 you know what I mean, And a lot of faith. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.560 A lot of trust and a lot of faith. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.560 So Stacey, we're gonna send you some Southwest vouchers to 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.760 get you out to oklahmore often. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.880 And then you see your boyfriend and I do it good. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.400 I mean, this guy, this is a marshaun. I appreciate 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.920 your relationship advice, brother, that's all sound. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.520 I got one here for you, Gavin, from a concerned teacher. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:07.600 And we know about teachers. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.359 We got kids, Yes, sir. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:10.880 Mister Newsom, I am a teacher. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.840 I've read that the Department of Education is possibly going 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.760 to be demolished. Thinking of the effects this will have. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.000 As a CTA union member, should we be proactive and 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.680 learn more about what this will mean for teachers. I've 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.959 also heard about detention centers and knowing the students, my students' families, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.640 I worry. I know it's a lot on the teacher's minds, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.000 how funds and SPED will be affected. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.160 What can we do now? Any advice? 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.280 Well, I mean, I think the questions pretty grounded in 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.000 legit concern. You got Vince McMahon's ex wife who's going 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.360 to be running federally the Department of Education. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.640 Wait, the wrestlers, the wrestlers at the Vince McMahon dooc. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.920 I just saw the WW guy. His wife's running the 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:50.680 Department of educator. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.839 By the way, she's no dummy, So I just want 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.640 to want to say this, she's not and I don't 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.439 say that as a pejorative. She ran the small business aministration. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.760 She's extraordinarily bright, but I don't know of any real 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.080 history she has on public education. And the guy that 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.720 is appointing her the future president wants to eliminate the 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.760 Department of Education. He ran on it. So the question 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.680 is he's going to follow through on his campaign promise. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.000 My concern is less about her and more about his 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:24.520 intention to do exactly what our listener is concerned about. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.040 But that said, it's such a small margin in Congress. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.400 You got to get congressional approval. We just want a 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.000 big race out here in California. It's it's literally a 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.200 two vote margin now in the House of Representatives in Congress, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.280 and so I don't know that they're ever going to 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.640 pass something that completely vanalyzes the Department of Education. But 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.200 we've gamed it out California. It's I think, and don't 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.640 quote me, but I think it's seven point nine billion 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.200 dollars that's at risk if they eliminated all the federal 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.560 funds come into the states, so it's not inconsequential. But 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.040 you know, I can't imagine they'll be able to pull 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.640 it off. But we're preparing for the worst case scenario, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.600 and we'll have the backs of our damn teachers. Uh, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.640 don't don't you worry. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.640 Good appreciate that, Gavin. I'll let her know. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:11.480 Uh. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.240 Question, Marshawn, this is for you, Uh coming out Black Friday, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.720 Cyber Monday's coming up. We've loved the Besmo products back 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.640 in the day. What are you looking forward for Christmas? 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.840 Any Bestmo stuff we can buy? And what do you 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.160 recommend that's on your Haliday list? 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.960 Man? Damn, I'm I'm pretty simple when it comes to 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.880 that kind of shit. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.880 Eh, don't buy the Oro Ran I can tell you that. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.120 Don't don't do that. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.680 She just lost a sponsor, Dan, you loss of sponsors. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:46.360 When I'm living some simple I'm gonna have to think 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:46.840 about that. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.200 All right, Well we'll bring that back in the next episode. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.760 What do you want, Gavin? Tell me what do you want? 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:51.040 Avin? 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.440 You know what I was humbled yesterday. There's a guy, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:58.360 unbelievable guy that's that's worked in three administrations, who had 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.600 his birthday yesterday, John, and we in our office and 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.840 John's a rock star in every way, shape or form. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.000 He's he's a young man with special needs. And I said, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.400 what are you hoping to get for your birthday? And 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.840 he literally lit up and got emotional because he said, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.440 I think I'm going to get what I want. I 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.960 was like, what is it, John, This is amazing. He says, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.280 black socks and white socks, and I was like, damn. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.240 And it was like it was like he was touched 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.840 just by the question. He was so excited. I asked, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.120 and he said, that's what he really wants and he 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.800 thinks he's going to get that, And it made me 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.880 just adjust all my I literally was thinking, like I'm 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.200 going through, you know, the list of what all the 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.800 kids want and everything else. I got to meet John. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.880 Man, get his info. We'll get him some beast smote 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.200 socks right now out to him. The care package I'm 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:46.760 that serious. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.760 Yeah no, But you know what, that's just a different 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.000 level of you know, I mean in terms of just 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.760 setting your own expectations of life and having a framework 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.240 of gratitude. Uh. And this is a guy just filled 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.440 with joy all time and fills our damn office with joy. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.560 He worked for the Schwarzenegger administration. He's still with us. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.040 And I joked, I said, in a couple of years, man, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.800 you're gonna work for another governor. He's like yeah, I'm 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.720 like Jesus, we come and go. And John's still with us. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.520 He does the mailroom at the office, and he's a 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.240 rock star. And it's a good life lesson. So my 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.480 Christmas list just got pared down, though I do want 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.960 some shoes. Man, you guys are good giving me shoes 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.520 side size twelve, twelve and a half, that's all. So 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.119 I love every time you guys get me with Snoop 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.800 gets those shoes. Those you know we love you. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.840 Only guys know that like you grew between the twelve 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.760 and twelve and a half. They think either you're twelve 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:37.440 or twelve and a half. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.400 I know I'm both. It depends on the damn make 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.720 of the shoe. Just saying though I do like those 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.240 Snoop sketchers no bs, thank you Snoop. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:54.600 They are nice. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.520 So Govin got another list your question here from Grace, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.000 and her question is thank you for all that you're 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.320 doing on this podcast and engaging with listeners. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:06.840 Gavin. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.920 In twenty three, you are someone claiming to be you 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.120 made your first and last public post on Blue Sky. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.119 Oh lash forward to now there are a number of 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.840 people in your comments section begging you to come back. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.920 Will you please appease them? 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.480 You can't even make this up. We literally now are 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:30.720 doing simultaneous posts on X and Blue Sky, which is interesting. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.800 And I love the question timely question because there I mean, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.399 you know, by any objective measure, the toxicity on X 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.040 is next level and there's not a lot of confidence 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.040 is going to get any better, as the editorial side 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.280 of it is completely just gone, and a lot of 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.639 vile and terrible things have said on that platform, and 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.160 Blue Sky has provided an alternative that everybody's been hoping 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.920 for for some time. This even pre dates you know, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.280 I must taking over Twitter and and moving it to X. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.760 This notion that you just don't want one platform to 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:08.240 dominate and Blue Skuy's literally getting all this renewed attention 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.640 and traction, and as a consequence, we're now posting consistently. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.920 So we're back on it, and we're really excited about 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.159 the traction. And I don't know, I don't want to 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.520