Talking Transparency Episode 2.11 - Featuring Chloe (StickyBaskets)

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you are now listening to Talking
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Transparency the podcast where
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transparents talk transparently hosted
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by Thea Ross Melissa Lucen and Cody
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Connor
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welcome back i'm Melissa i'm Cody and
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I'm Thea and tonight we actually have a
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guest with us and uh I will let her
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introduce herself so I am Chloe also
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known as Sticky Basket i'm working to
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get the link posted channel right oh
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awesome i'm welcome welcome welcome yes
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welcome
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uh well let's talk a little bit really
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quick let's get to just you know because
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we like to talk about upcoming events
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that we have first and then we also will
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recap on the back end for those
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listening but sure absolutely um we have
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a bunch of upcoming events we're we're
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have the next one that's going to be at
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Pride Palooa at ODU it's going to be on
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April 17th you can go and check it out
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at the ODU uh all of their different
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socials um also on April 20th we're
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going to have the trans family dinner
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that's going to be at in Virginia Beach
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you can go to kayla
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coalition.com/tfftd to RSVP or find out
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more information about that and then we
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also have our May trans family dinner
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which is going to be on May 18th both of
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those are the third Sunday of the month
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like we say we always try to host it
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once a month so if you miss it you can
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always visit us next month but we are
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going to be skipping on June so if you
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would like to participate in the trans
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family dinner you can always sign up we
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always are looking for new participants
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but because there are so many events
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going on in June already and you'll be
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able to come out and see us and
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participate in community we try not to
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jam another community event into that
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month
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and just another quick plug um for
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anybody watching April 5th this Saturday
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there will be protests all over the
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country if you're here locally in
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Virginia Beach um you know you can of
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course go to DC you can go to Richmond
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you can also stay here local and uh
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gather with us at uh Townpoint Park yep
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is it Townpoint Park uh it's a hands-off
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rally um 50 5051 you've been seeing them
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everywhere um so we have speakers that
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will be there from 11 to 2 so um it's at
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Townpoint Park park in the parking
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garages walk over um and uh just come
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out we're we actually are expecting
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about a thousand people um based on our
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RSVPs already um and then people who
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just haven't RSVPd but are planning on
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coming we we're very confident we'll
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have over a thousand people yeah so if
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you're if you're here in the area and
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you want to peacefully defend democracy
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that is just being so attacked right now
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Yeah show up let's see if we can make it
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to 3,000 people or more and if you're
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not in the area go to the
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50501 website it's I think it's I think
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it's 5051.org it's www.5050.1
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it's Yeah
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50501.org I think it is it just Google
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it just Google it go there yeah find
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your local um rally protest your local
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place that you can show up and show up
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that's Saturday April absolutely there's
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also please if you show up put some
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effort into your sign i mean you're
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representing yourself i went to a
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protest on the 14th March 14th the 14th
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amendment uh article three
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insurrectionists are incapable of
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holding presidents you know or any sort
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of office representing did the signs
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disappoint you Chloe yeah they it did i
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went to Lowe's and I went and I mean
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they're the only ones the other hardware
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stores are kind of anti DEI yeah oh yeah
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mhm i know lowe's is still kind of anti
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but like if you have to go to a hardware
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store it's probably the safest bet but
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funny thing about signs um let me tell
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you something i went to a protest i mean
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I go to them whenever I often I guess
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now these days um and regular weekend
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regular weekend activity and I don't
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know about a month ago I went with a
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friend to one in town center and we both
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were like kind of hurried that day and I
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had to pick her up and I was like you
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know I don't have time to make a sign
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we'll just go down there you know and
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then we get down there and I'm just
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going to set the stage like
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historically it has been older white
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women and with sprinkling of men doing
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you know attending these protests um and
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but these like little old ladies like
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they are OG's man we like I was so
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ashamed of the fact that I didn't find a
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random piece of cardboard in my car and
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a Sharpie to just write some [ __ ] on
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because that's what these [ __ ] did
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like one lady literally had an Amazon
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box that she probably just opened that
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was on her doorstep and she just opened
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it and she whipped everything out tossed
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it in her house and then she was like
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"This will do." literal box she had that
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had just been delivered and she just
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wrote like no musk you know with the X
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or whatever across it and and then
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another lady like again styrofoam like a
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styrofoam insert of something she just
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wrote with a Sharpie like her her
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thoughts and feelings she's like I just
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pulled this out of my old TV out of
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literally and I and so I just looked at
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my girlfriend i was like we're such
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losers like what losers like we're just
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like we don't intend to make a sign i
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don't I don't care if you show up with a
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sign without a sign i don't care what
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your sign's made of show up just show up
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this is If there's ever been a use it or
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lose it scenario
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in all of history this is it you use
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your rights now while you have them or
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you will lose them yes yes because guess
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what due process
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if some people can lose their due
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process we all lose our due process
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that's right i'm waiting for the Gestapo
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to pop in i'm saying snatching us up off
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the streets and like disappearing us i'm
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not They say my people do that to the
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kids yeah no they No I have trans zero
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kids and yet I get the COVID vaccine the
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Fouchy ouchie and the booster the Fouchy
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ouchie oh my and now look at me you
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might bring some MAGA viewers in here
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using language like that like that's
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great let's do it i I mean you know it's
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fine they'll be they'll be all right um
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so those are the events yeah those Yeah
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so those are the events yes and I love
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the message i love that we're going to
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be in rally like we're going to be
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telling them hands off get all off of
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all of the federal funds you're cutting
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and uh off of our rights but another
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thing I really wanted to talk about is
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we just had an amazing event this past
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week which was our trans day of
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visibility here in Hampton Roads it was
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an unbelievable celebration we had
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organizations like the Life Center we It
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was hosted at the South Eastern
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Transgender Resource Center at their
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physical location um but also we had uh
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what is that transgender assistance
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transgender assistance program of
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Virginia uh we had uh the Men in
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Transition Mass the Minority Aid Support
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Services the Urban League of Hampton
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Roads and just on and on and on i mean
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Hampton Roads Pride was there i could
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probably list just so many amazing
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organizations and then also we had a
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couple hundred folks come out there was
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there was grillin going on everyone had
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a good time and um I don't know those
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sorts of things really mean a lot to me
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right now checking in with everybody
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being able to see the folks I hadn't
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seen in a couple months or seeing how
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they were doing yes um and just you know
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hug on them a little bit you know yeah
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it's Well that's the that's what's
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really nice like having it i mean it's
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really important to have some of these
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things where where at least it's you
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know every few months where you know the
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community may not be social outside of
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going to things like trans
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day trans day of visibility or um you
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know the pride palooa or if it's pride
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in June but like they may go to those
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things right but you otherwise maybe
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it's just hard to check in outside well
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sorry oh I was going to say I think Not
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everybody always knows there's
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opportunities out there yeah yeah yeah
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getting word out and I think that's why
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we also created the trans family dinner
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is al you know I feel like that's
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creating more of those spaces and making
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sure that they are there and they're
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routine and that they're open to
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community members in a safe way um and
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that's the sort of thing that I'm
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grateful that we have so many dedicated
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folks who are making these spaces and
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are continuing to make these spaces
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pride is going to be enormous this year
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i know that I was I was talking to uh
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Jeff Ryder from the Hampton Roads Pride
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they're planning on doing a march first
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time that they're going to do a march as
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well with the uh with their main pride
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event which is going to be really really
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important i think we forget sometimes uh
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not all not actual queer folks and folks
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who are doing the work but that pride is
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is a protest started as a protest and
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will continue to be a protest um but um
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yeah I I'm excited to be out there both
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telling people to get hands off and to
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get out and celebrate and be a visible
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and and that's life speaking of safe
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spaces I was unfortunately not in town
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and so I wasn't able to participate in
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the local stuff trans day of trans
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Virginia Beach trans day of visibility
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it's like so many um I was I was out of
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town but I was out in Harrisonburg
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Virginia mhm out was James Madison
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University area um and uh like right
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next to it like it was I was in Yeah in
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the the campus area um and
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just Googled Mhm like there's got to be
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something I can do and so everybody
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watching there's always something you
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can do always something um and sure
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enough I found in this little small
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college rural Virginia town um a place
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shout out to the friendly city safe
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space nice um that they were uh they
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opened their doors and did a community
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mural
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um a community handprint mural of of
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blue and pink hands on a white
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background um and so I I stopped in
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there kind of at the very beginning and
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just kind of hung out for an hour hour
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and a half and so and and talked to the
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young college kids and the the director
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um and and did a couple handprints on
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the wall were they like "Oh my god
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there's this famous Tik Tocker here."
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They had no idea who I heard
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they Yes they're like "Who's this old
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dad?" No we had this old dad we We had
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some We had some good conversations
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um and uh then I was able
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to stop back by later mhm um and and
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it's funny because some of my my
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co-workers
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um had seen me you know go walk down
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there in in the afternoon when I went
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down there to to go put my handprints on
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the wall and they're like "Hey did you
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go through a walk through town or
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whatnot?" And so I told them I said "No
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today's trans day of visibility." and I
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went to the local safe space to
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participate and show my support and talk
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with some of the the young college kids
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and just Mhm you know be there to
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support and uh they're like oh that's
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you know that's cool that's cool was
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great and and I won't use any names um
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but but one of my bosses Mhm actually
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um ended up following me Mhm on socials
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which is you know total nightmare great
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great a really great nightmare
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uhhuh but
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part of the reason and all of that and
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and and everything is because she has a
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a nephew that is a I love when stories
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end like that and so and and one of my
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other co-workers cuz on the way back we
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all did you have to do the workers
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dinner it's a work event so but on the
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way back from dinner I always walk as
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long as it's within walkable everybody
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else but I always walk back and forth to
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dinner
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um and the the safe space was
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on the way between where we were staying
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and and where we were eating and so uh
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one of my co-workers wanted to walk back
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with me and I told her I was like "Hey
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I'm going to stop back
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by the safe space because I want to get
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a picture of of how it all turned out."
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Mhm um and uh
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um just so you know I'm I'm going to do
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that and they're like "Well okay that be
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that that'll be cool." And so we were
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able to to stop back by like right
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before they closed up like when
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everything was done mhm um and my
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coworker put a handprint on the wall
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oh that's amazing
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um and uh yeah it was it was just what a
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really cool experience it was a really
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really great experience um really neat
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to be a part of and who knows you know
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one of my kids might end up at James
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Madison that's right exactly and they'll
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see your handprints on the wall that's
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amazing and you see this story reminds
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me that we are Legion trans family is
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everywhere people they talk about us
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like we're this 1% this small percent
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but we are so so much more especially
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when you count all of our siblings our
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cousins our brothers our sisters our
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aunts our uncles our grandparents all
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the folks that are chosen family that
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don't have all proper names all sorts of
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different names and let me tell you
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something because I was talking um to
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the person there closing up because the
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very end of the night um and I came in
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and I I'll show you the picture
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i wish we could show our viewers the
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picture we could have if we had given it
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to producer Athena well producer Athena
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right out the gate that I was going to
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tell we should just This is why we
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should do show notes tell this
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story but
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um the the this the wall
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oh
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cool oh I love that picture look how
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many hands are on the the wall picture
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that was the one thing that that uh they
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told me and they're going to open up for
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another day I think um next week to let
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people do more handprints if they want
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to but that was the one thing
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like way more people than we thought
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were going to show up showed up yes
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that's awesome and I mean that's kind of
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the theme right now I think mhm with
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everything with when when it comes to
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community especially centered around
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politics right now is that way more
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people are showing up than we are
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expecting like for Saturday I you know
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I'm one of the organizers in a group of
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us and um and and one of my partners is
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like we're going to have we're probably
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going to have 2,000 people and I was
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like when when you said 1,000 people I
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was like she's crazy we're probably
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going to have 200 people out here and
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but like if I actually look at the last
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several events I've been at every single
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event has grown in size from one just in
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a week you know what I mean like one
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from this week to the next week it's
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like this rally had 500 people and this
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rally this last rally we had with
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Senator Warner was over a,000 people and
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it was 1500 between Ches and Virginia
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Beach so I it's that you know like
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there's this surprise that we're getting
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that people are actually which is
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honestly like the only thing that's like
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keeping me going right now because if I
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didn't know that there was that people
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were starting to pay attention and that
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that there is some kind of movement
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right for that I feel like it's hard not
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to pay attention when it's something
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immediate like your job and a lot of
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these federal employees that are getting
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their jobs cut out from under them when
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they miss a paycheck that is you know a
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mortgage payment or food on the dinner
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table like it it has an immediate impact
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where they have to get involved and I
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don't think it's sustainable long term
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to to continue
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what they're doing yeah well right no I
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I agree making a joke out of the
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government but the problem but the but
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this is what's upsetting is that right
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like we millions of us feel this way
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like it can't keep up for long we are
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making an assumption that these people
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care and it's intentional what they're
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doing
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they're intentionally wrecking our
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government they're intentionally uh
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flipping our stock market so that they
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can do a giant wealth transfer it's all
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intentional they don't literally care
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and the thing is is that until until
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people start realizing that are you
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suggesting wealth should transfer not
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from the the impoverished to the wealthy
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but from the wealthy to the impoverished
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i mean it it should pretty radical
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thinking right
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there i know i know but you know Elon
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might disagree elon thinks you should
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have empathy for his uh cyber trucks
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please literally he has no empathy he is
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a psychopath but go ahead yes go to Yeah
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no I was just going to say Elon also
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thinks empathy was is what causing Yes
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all the pains of society right uhhuh
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uhhuh yeah literally this is for him
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then I shall have absolutely none for
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him exactly right but but but Oh my god
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you going to have any for me yeah no
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yeah so I mean like we the
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so yes wake more people being awake to
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this but like I and I just hate to be
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like I am not a pessimist like by by my
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nature is optimism i am I literally I
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ever even when bad things happen to me I
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always can find something good from the
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bad right definitely
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I am not there yeah I mean this like I I
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can't what's what's going on right now i
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mean I think part of the reason why you
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know we're getting surprising numbers
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which really it to me it's more
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surprising that there's not more not
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more right for sure but that being said
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I'm just nihilistic what we're seeing is
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more and more of
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so it's a higher percentage of
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population being affected now right
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correct you you look you look at people
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like me um and not only did I have
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something
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um important to stand up for before
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right um you know cuz I can I can look
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at the uh the evolution of
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my piss
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offness for lack of a better word and
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and even my activism based on you know
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like you know first it was
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Okay you know you are attacking my wife
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and and and children's bodily autonomy
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yep um then you know was my daughter
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came out um you know that was another
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thing that you know it was was on my
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radar before but now it was
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exceptionally personal right right the
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attack on on LGBTQ community on the
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trans community um and you know as as we
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go farther and we look at the attack on
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my all of my children's education right
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right and we move into now um my father
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is on social security and disability my
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father is on Medicare
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um and Medicaid um and I think that's
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you know that's my buildup where now you
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are attacking even if you weren't
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affecting me in any way you are now
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attacking every single member of my
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family correct and I think that's the
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buildup that we're seeing in other
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people's lives as well now right right
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it is and you're actually you're you're
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totally right because all these
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different avenues that is 100% like all
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the different avenues they're using to
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attack people right and then you talk
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about the military like Chloe I know you
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were in the military and like
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15,000 people affected um now I know
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that the judges temporarily halted that
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from what I'm my understanding is but
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but I but I think the environment is
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still one of which is still trying to
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push them out exactly and there are
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processes that discrimination can take
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place that aren't necessarily oh we're
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going to remove you for being trans for
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my specific scenario they sort of tried
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to represent me as an alcoholic which I
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don't have a drinking problem i have a
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problem with systems that sort of
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oppress me and don't let me be who I am
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and being in the Navy and then not being
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recognized it was over a period of about
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18 months yeah sure uh they then said
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"Well it seems like you're not getting
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any better without pushing forward on
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it." Mhm i built an entire life after
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that and it's funny you mentioned your
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kids' education being attacked cuz I
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work for a public school district uh for
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Norfolk uh in the maintenance field and
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that's what happens is they start making
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cuts like this and all of a sudden I get
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to relive something that really I'd like
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to never think about and then Trump gets
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inaugurated and trans people are
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incapable of having honor or serving
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with dignity insanity the the way he
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speaks about it and he goes "It's an
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ideology but what about the right to
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believe or to hold those independent
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identities separate from what the
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government prescribes for us?" Right
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correct agreed so also I don't think you
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can just erase or scrub out ideologies i
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mean I don't think that we are
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ideologies we are people we are we have
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our own economy but then also like just
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the idea that oh it's an ideology
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therefore we must resist to that like I
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think we have to contend with ideas and
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one of the things that you were talking
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about Cody is is this idea that it's
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affecting more people and it's going
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further and further and one of the
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ideologies that I think is actually
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really toxic is the American
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conservative ideology that undergurs a
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lot of this because when you go back to
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10 years ago you go back to 20 years ago
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what has been the constant refrain the
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mantra that comes from the right in
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America that we need to dismantle we
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need to make smaller we need to
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deregulate we need to dismantle the
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government and all sort of different
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ways that they will pitch that that we
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have to do that or some sort of way but
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what is the zero point of that ideology
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what is that ideology taken to a point
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of extremity to the point that that is
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all there is and there is no space for
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other ideology and when he's talking
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about closing out other people's gender
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other people's so socioeconomic beliefs
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or other ideals that's what they want is
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all is left is this well we need to cut
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and cut and cut but what what happens
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when you've cut and it's affected
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everyone when you you've cut to the bone
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you've gotten all the way to the bedrock
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and now we're standing here looking at
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each other just human beings in a field
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and I don't really think that the
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billionaires can sustain themselves in
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that world nor do they want to be in
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that world and I think the reality of it
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is the asymmetry of the power becomes
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readily apparent to all of us that they
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have bunkers that they have private
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islands that they have private security
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and they're privatizing more and more of
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our infrastructure because then they can
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own that infrastructure and they can
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either deny reshape reform it into
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something that will only serve
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themselves and all points to me and I
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don't mean to be overly pessimistic I
00:24:01.919 --> 00:24:03.750
don't mean to be over niilistic that
00:24:03.760 --> 00:24:06.549
they expect us to fight to squabble for
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there to be mass strife for there to be
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sorts of conflicts and they're actually
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trying to instigate those whether it be
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in Greenland whether it be in Panama
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whether it be in all sorts of different
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ways and geopolitical things
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internationally or even here amongst
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states intrastate conflict that they're
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trying to create trying to create
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they're trying to incite the black
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community yes paint paint painting over
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the black lives i mean which Oh goodness
00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:30.950
did you hear about the Smithsonian and
00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.950
Donald Trump saying that uh race has
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.070
genetic markers which again is not true
00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:41.590
at all not true at all i mean like I I
00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:44.230
the that's like saying Pluto's a planet
00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:45.990
because you disagree with the change of
00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.510
NASA which I mean I do I do disagree
00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:51.830
that like to be a planet you have to
00:24:51.840 --> 00:24:54.470
have cleared your orbit of other foreign
00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:57.029
objects like I think that's a little a
00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:00.230
little odd because Pluto's Pluto's orbit
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:02.230
intersects with I think Neptune or
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:04.390
whatever one is out there but it doesn't
00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:06.630
make sense because then that planet that
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:07.990
doesn't have a cleared out orbit but
00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.590
we're considering it a planet but we got
00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:11.990
to say Pluto's a dwarf planet i think
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.470
it's a real planet but again that's not
00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:16.470
that's not necessarily the same when
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.230
you're categorizing do you think that
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.470
Pluto is a planet put that inside chat
00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:23.909
now let us know we need to know do you
00:25:23.919 --> 00:25:28.070
think so but um Oh my god there are
00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:30.950
physicists that would agree with me i
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:34.630
just want a physicist at least one i
00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:38.470
believe you um how do we how did we get
00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:40.630
to Pluto i don't know but I I'm pretty
00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.870
sure it's going to be SpaceX they keep
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.590
exploding yeah no they do keep exploding
00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:47.110
sorry you each opportunity to take a jab
00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:49.909
at those spacex is the privatized
00:25:49.919 --> 00:25:52.149
version of NASA we'll see a lot of
00:25:52.159 --> 00:25:54.149
contracts going to them through defense
00:25:54.159 --> 00:25:55.750
spending and stuff like that because
00:25:55.760 --> 00:25:57.669
that's how they do it but it will be
00:25:57.679 --> 00:25:58.950
because they earned it it won't be
00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.549
because Musk controls the government uh
00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:04.909
yeah Musk is the number one welfare
00:26:04.919 --> 00:26:08.789
queen he is the only welfare queen
00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:10.950
literally in the entire country there is
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:12.950
no such thing as a welfare queen except
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:16.950
for Elon Musk that is his he literally
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:19.750
is taking all of the government money i
00:26:19.760 --> 00:26:21.669
back in the day we had a saying if you
00:26:21.679 --> 00:26:23.350
can't stand the heat stay out of the
00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:25.950
kitchen and he goes and makes comedy
00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:28.549
legal and then gets mad when people call
00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:31.430
him a Nazi for doing a Nazi salute which
00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:33.909
I mean if you're performing symbols from
00:26:33.919 --> 00:26:38.149
an ideology national socialism of World
00:26:38.159 --> 00:26:40.549
War II Germany right pretty bad pretty
00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:43.269
bad some people say Adolf Hitler was a
00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.269
good artist i just want to say in the
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.710
World War II time era Adolf Hitler was
00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:50.789
capturing Renaissance style art which
00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.269
yes fundamentally looks like a skilled
00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:55.590
art but at the time art was being
00:26:55.600 --> 00:26:57.430
depicted more along the lines of Pablo
00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.029
Picasso where there's a rebellion
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:00.870
against traditional beauty so when you
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:02.630
have someone putting out stuff like I
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.630
don't know boring cathedrals or like
00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:08.789
portraits you know like back then he was
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.710
not a good artist you do not have to
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:13.350
give props to Hitler just so we're clear
00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:15.190
there he's by the way we call him
00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.230
Shitler oh okay be careful i have a cat
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.990
named Shhatler no
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.310
also I have a cat named Palanteer which
00:27:24.320 --> 00:27:26.630
is very unfortunate cuz that's another
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:27.990
company that's coming in with some
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:30.070
private defense contract it is i just
00:27:30.080 --> 00:27:31.909
saw that it's from Lord of the Rings
00:27:31.919 --> 00:27:33.510
though it's the orb where if you touch
00:27:33.520 --> 00:27:36.310
it you can see all all events past
00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:38.149
present and future and I name my cat
00:27:38.159 --> 00:27:40.070
after it because I let I made a lot of
00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:41.510
money on the stock when they made their
00:27:41.520 --> 00:27:43.830
direct public offering
00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:45.350
good amount good amount i was learning
00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:47.190
what calls were i made some really good
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.870
plays that was during the GameStop
00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:54.149
i'm not I'm participating look at Look
00:27:54.159 --> 00:27:57.029
at the I don't want to but there was a
00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:58.310
conversation where there was like I feel
00:27:58.320 --> 00:27:59.750
like at one point you were a libertarian
00:27:59.760 --> 00:28:03.510
now I think Okay oh yeah there so Chloe
00:28:03.520 --> 00:28:06.230
so Ron Paul 2012 we should have got back
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.310
on the gold standard okay I'm not going
00:28:08.320 --> 00:28:10.149
to lie though
00:28:10.159 --> 00:28:13.830
i did no I have I have repented for my
00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:15.750
crimes of those times it was Gary
00:28:15.760 --> 00:28:17.750
Johnson right that's who I voted for
00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:20.149
Gary gary Johnson oh goodness what's an
00:28:20.159 --> 00:28:23.430
Aleppo listen yeah listen I voted for
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.669
Gary Johnson because I was not paying
00:28:25.679 --> 00:28:27.750
any attention to politics and I was like
00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:29.990
I don't I don't like any I did the thing
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:31.669
like I did the thing what people do
00:28:31.679 --> 00:28:33.350
which I would that I yell at those
00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:35.350
people now but I was that person which
00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:38.070
is also why I'm empathetic to people who
00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:39.669
have who do that and have done that to
00:28:39.679 --> 00:28:43.389
say hey listen I was you too okay like I
00:28:43.399 --> 00:28:45.669
definitely definitely voted I've told
00:28:45.679 --> 00:28:47.430
you this before I'm certain I voted for
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.470
that hose bag Vicky Manning like only
00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.789
because her she had signs everywhere and
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:54.070
I didn't know anything about school
00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:55.909
board so I mean it's like accidentally
00:28:55.919 --> 00:28:58.710
drinking pee there oh goodness talking
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.789
about accidentally drinking pee when I
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.830
was a young kid my friend let's not talk
00:29:04.840 --> 00:29:08.789
about taking his own urine and you talk
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.710
transparently but we also have agency
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:16.950
yes they cube tray oh goodness saran
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:19.110
wrap and some toothpicks so how about
00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:21.669
the Yankees y'all tell me the
00:29:21.679 --> 00:29:23.110
popsicle i think they are playing
00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:25.029
baseball again they are you know I was
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.310
It was It was fascinating you started
00:29:26.320 --> 00:29:28.149
talking about how people like like uh
00:29:28.159 --> 00:29:30.230
lionize Hitler's art but if you do the
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:31.830
same thing to George Bush's art even
00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:33.750
though when you look at George Bush I
00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:35.590
didn't know George Bush had art well
00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:37.110
people used to like rape because he does
00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:39.510
these like really childish like they're
00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:42.070
they're I mean he paints and people like
00:29:42.080 --> 00:29:43.430
to give him credit and props for
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:45.830
painting because oh look a wararmonger
00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:47.990
and a war criminal oh my goodness he can
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:49.510
paint uh but it's something really
00:29:49.520 --> 00:29:52.870
strange what about Hunter Biden
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:54.789
and you see the same thing happen where
00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:57.990
conservatives have a tendency to love AI
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.190
art and oh goodness don't ever call it
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:05.590
AI art it is AI image generation it it
00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:09.750
is not art it has no no ability to
00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:13.029
interpret or convey no it's instruction
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:14.870
it's like color paint by number like the
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:16.389
I like shrimp Jesus though i thought
00:30:16.399 --> 00:30:18.630
shrimp Jesus was especially compelling i
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.470
almost converted once I saw the images
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.590
of Jesus as a shrimp i mean I don't
00:30:23.600 --> 00:30:25.110
think I'm familiar with shrimp Jesus
00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:27.590
shrimp if you're in chat go Google Jesus
00:30:27.600 --> 00:30:29.669
yeah just Google no it was a it's a very
00:30:29.679 --> 00:30:31.830
very viral Facebook meme i feel like it
00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:33.590
fooled a lot of boomers on Facebook they
00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:35.029
were like "Wow Jesus has come back and
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:37.350
he's king of sea." I don't know listen
00:30:37.360 --> 00:30:42.269
oh AI images
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:47.830
stop oh my god um so so yeah so we're
00:30:47.840 --> 00:30:49.510
just like caught up in all this like
00:30:49.520 --> 00:30:52.149
legal there's all these things like you
00:30:52.159 --> 00:30:55.669
know the all these cases this lawfare
00:30:55.679 --> 00:30:58.950
going on you know trying to address all
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:00.870
of these like executive orders whether
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.350
it's kicking all the trans people out of
00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:07.909
the military whether it's um you know uh
00:31:07.919 --> 00:31:10.070
the 19 and under trans the gender
00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:12.549
affirming care like how they had to put
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:14.630
you know the judge put a hold on that a
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.190
pause a signal group chat perhaps where
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.669
they're tossing around classified
00:31:19.679 --> 00:31:21.830
classified information they said that
00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:24.789
was that was that was sensitive what
00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:26.789
bothers me is the journalist releases it
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:28.389
and he's like "Oh they were texting
00:31:28.399 --> 00:31:29.990
about war plans." And it's like "You
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.789
just watched a war crime be committed as
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:36.110
they bomb a building in Yemen
00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:38.389
civilians." Like what do you what do you
00:31:38.399 --> 00:31:41.269
mean classified information like this is
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.149
a crime yeah yeah see the thing is is in
00:31:44.159 --> 00:31:45.509
America we don't even have the the
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:47.350
literacy or education in a public level
00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:48.950
for people to understand that we don't
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:50.870
have the legitimacy there the war powers
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.470
resolution should have been revoked
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:54.710
there is no authority for us to be
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:56.549
fighting a proxy war with Saudi Arabia
00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:58.389
on behalf of Saudi Arabia in in fighting
00:31:58.399 --> 00:32:00.149
Iran in the middle of Yemen there's no
00:32:00.159 --> 00:32:01.909
reason for us to be doing this they talk
00:32:01.919 --> 00:32:03.430
as if the Houthies are as if there's
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:05.110
this active threat to us at all times
00:32:05.120 --> 00:32:06.950
but if anything we've created a threat
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:09.190
to money one of the most threat
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:10.789
disgusting things was when they turned
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:13.830
those pagers into bombs and they were
00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:16.389
targeting first responders and then they
00:32:16.399 --> 00:32:19.029
say "Oh that's the Houthis those are the
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:21.350
people we're going after." Oh yeah and
00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:25.430
if if by those definitions they
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:27.509
determine it just based on which side of
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.070
the gun you're on it's it's ridiculous
00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:33.350
and it's it's well and I mean it's no
00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:39.350
but it's it but that's notice how it we
00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:41.669
didn't talk about the fact that it was
00:32:41.679 --> 00:32:43.669
we were just bombing a civilian building
00:32:43.679 --> 00:32:47.110
what we talked about was the focus was
00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:49.909
on the fact that it got leaked and the
00:32:49.919 --> 00:32:52.149
and they used these emojis and they used
00:32:52.159 --> 00:32:55.830
the Yeah the fist and the American flag
00:32:55.840 --> 00:32:58.389
flick and fire and I don't like that
00:32:58.399 --> 00:33:00.710
they can say I'm going to say a prayer
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.549
how about you go and like How about you
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:04.470
just not How about you How about you
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.070
just There's more people in America
00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:07.830
right now that can tell you the emojis
00:33:07.840 --> 00:33:09.669
that were used in the signal chat that
00:33:09.679 --> 00:33:11.909
can then can tell you that it was a
00:33:11.919 --> 00:33:13.590
government but but see here's where we
00:33:13.600 --> 00:33:15.269
really need to connect war crime
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:16.549
happened three branches of government
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:18.549
and the the real this really important
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:20.630
okay like war crime happened trying to
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.590
circumvent foyer requirements those two
00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:25.590
things together are the real story
00:33:25.600 --> 00:33:27.029
because when you really get down to we
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.710
can talk about oh you put uh the
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.710
military indust at risk you put troops
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.149
at risk i feel like that's the framing
00:33:32.159 --> 00:33:33.590
that I get from watching a lot of this
00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:35.350
like people are being told it but the
00:33:35.360 --> 00:33:36.549
ultimate thing is like no what you're
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.990
actually doing is putting the entire
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.630
legitimacy of the United States at risk
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.470
because you are committing war crimes
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:43.750
and we're saying we're above the
00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:45.669
international uh uh court of criminal
00:33:45.679 --> 00:33:46.870
all sorts of different things above
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.549
international law and that we're above
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:50.070
our own our own laws our own
00:33:50.080 --> 00:33:51.430
requirements to be able to oversee
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.190
ourselves it's a point of saying there
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.110
is no check and balance to power this is
00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:57.669
brutal lethality you literally already
00:33:57.679 --> 00:33:58.950
said that we don't care about the
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.190
international criminal service member
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:03.350
for as long if this was a service member
00:34:03.360 --> 00:34:04.789
if this was a group of service members
00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:06.630
in a chat they'd all be toast they'd be
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.349
in Levvenworth like you know what I mean
00:34:09.359 --> 00:34:11.190
so I went and some cryptographic
00:34:11.200 --> 00:34:12.869
training and I know I would be in prison
00:34:12.879 --> 00:34:16.230
for some of the things uh the sitting
00:34:16.240 --> 00:34:20.230
duck President Trump is doing yeah with
00:34:20.240 --> 00:34:23.190
with regard to his off period where he's
00:34:23.200 --> 00:34:25.270
withholding classified information when
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.589
the CIA is coming to recover them for I
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.589
believe the Library of Congress and he
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:31.829
just kind of keeps on it and there are
00:34:31.839 --> 00:34:34.550
tapes of him talking to people with like
00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:36.550
yeah it'd be illegal to show you this
00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:39.270
and it's wild that we have these tapes
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:40.869
and then we just go oh yeah let's let
00:34:40.879 --> 00:34:43.270
him run for president they've norm I
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.109
mean they have conditioned us they've
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:46.950
normalized us like it's the same thing
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:48.710
as what they're doing with the with the
00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:50.710
deportations right now and how what
00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:52.069
they're doing with El Salvador and how
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.270
they are they are pushing us to see how
00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.550
much we will tolerate because it's all
00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:03.750
2016 Hillary Clinton's Blackberry emails
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:06.310
we ought to have locked her up back then
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.109
you know keep the change Obama yeah
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:11.510
right right but like but really at this
00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:13.910
point they are really though like
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.230
they're legitimately testing the
00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:19.109
American people to see third term where
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:23.670
our where where our threshold is where
00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:25.670
will we scream
00:35:25.680 --> 00:35:30.069
is it how far can we get before they
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.390
start uprising before they start
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:34.310
screaming so all of these things are
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.150
like little tests for us which is why
00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:38.790
it's so important to show up on Saturday
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.430
to no matter where you are like to show
00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:43.230
up and like s
00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:46.150
because when it's the same people people
00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:50.950
don't pay attention it's every new face
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.030
that shows up at these things trust me I
00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:55.030
am in these politicians face all the
00:35:55.040 --> 00:35:57.430
time i when I go speak at public
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.550
meetings and I think Cody um while you
00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:03.510
know yes Cody is speaking to the dis
00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:05.349
people on the DAS and yes I am also
00:36:05.359 --> 00:36:08.270
speaking to people dis I'm actually my
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:11.910
message is for people at home I'm
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:14.950
talking to the people in the audience
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.109
I'm talking to the people that are
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.310
watching on TV um I'm not talking to
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.150
politicians because the politicians know
00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:24.630
that I'm that I'm an activist they know
00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:26.550
I have a loud mouth i've you know
00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.150
presented myself in front of both of
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:31.589
those bodies probably 40 times and at at
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.990
a minimum and that doesn't include phone
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.310
calls and other things that I see them
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:39.670
at and like they don't you know they're
00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:41.910
conditioned to my face and my voice
00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:45.990
right and it has to continue it I don't
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:48.990
have to go away but I'm happy to be more
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.710
quiet while more new people jump up and
00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:54.950
that's what we need because they they
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:57.190
care about faces they care about new
00:36:57.200 --> 00:36:59.190
faces because ultimately these people
00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:01.750
care about power and as long as it's the
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.069
same old [ __ ] people standing up here
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:05.230
they're like "Well you're only one
00:37:05.240 --> 00:37:07.910
vote." But see the more people you get
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.510
to stand up there with you they're like
00:37:09.520 --> 00:37:12.630
"Oh [ __ ] this [ __ ] turned in from she
00:37:12.640 --> 00:37:15.990
she Melissa Lucen is not one vote
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.349
melissa Lucen is probably a couple
00:37:19.359 --> 00:37:21.990
hundred votes because of Melissa Lucen's
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.710
influence right same with Cody Connor so
00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:27.349
that's important y'all it is important
00:37:27.359 --> 00:37:29.630
that people see you
00:37:29.640 --> 00:37:32.310
advocating and that your but it's more
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:34.750
important that your community and
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.950
advocacy in local state and federal
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:42.550
government is right now you bring people
00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:44.470
with you i don't care if you have to
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.670
drag them bring a bo I my one of my
00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:49.109
favorite things to say to people is like
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.069
I just need a body if if I ask you to
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:53.349
come to city council or a schoolboard
00:37:53.359 --> 00:37:55.109
meeting like I don't need you to talk i
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:56.950
will handle the speakers i will speak i
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.710
will we have other speakers i need a
00:37:58.720 --> 00:38:01.750
body that's it i've been working on
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:03.829
trying to get a movement started the
00:38:03.839 --> 00:38:06.390
modern labor movement i want the acronym
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:09.270
to be MLM if you just get two friends
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.510
and tell them about it and they get two
00:38:12.520 --> 00:38:14.870
friends okay you think "Oh I don't want
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:16.550
to be at the bottom of the pyramid." Get
00:38:16.560 --> 00:38:17.990
two friends you won't be at the bottom
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.670
they'll be at the bottom put them at the
00:38:19.680 --> 00:38:21.510
bottom and make them go get two friends
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:24.950
um Chloe God I'm such a sucker for
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:26.710
gorilla marketing tactics and really
00:38:26.720 --> 00:38:29.589
good marketing ideas and god damn it
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:30.829
that's so
00:38:30.839 --> 00:38:35.589
good wow mlm modern labor movement oh
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:39.349
gosh bring two friends it's brilliant
00:38:39.359 --> 00:38:41.990
you can also do the modern labor party
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.349
if you want to separate from the
00:38:43.359 --> 00:38:45.109
two-party system we currently have and
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.349
then the acronym is MLP which a lot of
00:38:47.359 --> 00:38:49.589
internet people know as My Little Pony
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:51.190
so then you can share with them that
00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:53.030
friendship is magic because it's
00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:55.589
bringing us all together that's right
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:57.589
that's right even when they're trying to
00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:59.990
divide us like it doesn't stop us having
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.030
a good time i mean at the coalition's
00:39:03.040 --> 00:39:05.190
trans family dinner I know I had a blast
00:39:05.200 --> 00:39:07.510
oh we have such a good time absolutely
00:39:07.520 --> 00:39:09.829
and that's I mean it's joy like you're
00:39:09.839 --> 00:39:12.150
not going to take our joy from us like
00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:15.270
period absolutely that is the act of
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.349
resistance that is the act of resistance
00:39:17.359 --> 00:39:18.950
and like so I I went to a funeral
00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:21.190
yesterday for Miss Sharon Felton's
00:39:21.200 --> 00:39:23.589
husband um who passed away she's uh on
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:26.390
the school board and her husband Winfred
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:28.630
was a lovely man who drove Sharon to
00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:30.310
everything all the political events he
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:31.750
was amazing yeah and I remember meeting
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:34.390
him yeah and uh and it was at New
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:36.870
Jerusalem Church which is a black church
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.470
in historic SeaTac and um let me tell
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:43.430
you something i don't believe in God but
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.829
if I ever was it'd be standing in a
00:39:45.839 --> 00:39:48.710
black church y'all nobody could bring me
00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:53.550
to Jesus like their joy and
00:39:53.560 --> 00:39:56.589
celebration even in
00:39:56.599 --> 00:40:00.069
death just the way they celebrate and
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.510
like that that is the the whenever I
00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:05.270
look at the communities that get
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:06.750
targeted the
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.630
most it's obviously for very distinct
00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:13.030
you know generally physical reason like
00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:15.910
physical worldly reasons right um
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:17.829
whether it's skin color or whether
00:40:17.839 --> 00:40:20.190
you're part of the the queer community
00:40:20.200 --> 00:40:23.349
but all of those communities also have
00:40:23.359 --> 00:40:26.069
something in common and it's joy you
00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:28.069
know I would go one step further i think
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:29.829
what we have in common is joy you're
00:40:29.839 --> 00:40:32.870
right no question no no aster to that
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.470
but I think it's also kaos what it is
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.870
what I like to think of is beauty it is
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.109
non-gendered it is non-specific it is it
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:43.670
is ahistorical it is posh historical and
00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:46.230
it is a sort of thing that it is a light
00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:48.790
when someone is happy when they are
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:50.550
moving with purpose when they are in
00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:52.390
community with people that are vibing
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.349
with them in sync they shine and that
00:40:55.359 --> 00:40:57.430
light I think fascists and people who
00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:59.670
are subsumed with darkness they can't
00:40:59.680 --> 00:41:01.670
handle it that's correct and they they
00:41:01.680 --> 00:41:03.109
must stop it out because they must be
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:04.870
the only ones that control light and the
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:06.309
one message I would love to send to
00:41:06.319 --> 00:41:07.589
everyone is that light is wonderful
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:09.670
because it's easy to spread it's like a
00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:11.829
flame you can you can help someone else
00:41:11.839 --> 00:41:13.670
just by acknowledging who they are you
00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:15.270
can you can take their pronouns you can
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:16.630
take their name you can talk about what
00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:17.750
they're wearing you can give it a
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:18.870
compliment to them about the way that
00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:20.309
they walk the way that they talk the way
00:41:20.319 --> 00:41:22.550
that they make you feel and you can
00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:24.710
watch them light up and when you do that
00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:27.270
in a little tiny tiny way in a microcosm
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.510
it adds up and your entire community
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:31.190
over time can be a brighter and better
00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.030
place that's something that I feel like
00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:35.829
we all know on a very humanist intuitive
00:41:35.839 --> 00:41:38.870
level but it's easy for us to get sucked
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:40.630
into other things and now more than
00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:42.470
anything when I talk about joy when I
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:43.910
talk about those things it is about
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:46.550
turning your light on choosing to making
00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:48.309
the effort putting the energy into doing
00:41:48.319 --> 00:41:51.270
and then also finding other people and
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.670
finding ways to uplift them in small
00:41:53.680 --> 00:41:55.750
ways sometimes sometimes big ways yeah
00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:57.670
let them turn their light on let them
00:41:57.680 --> 00:41:59.349
shine a little bit because that's going
00:41:59.359 --> 00:42:01.430
to absolutely piss the fascists off and
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:03.430
it's also going to sustain us through
00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:08.069
the darkness and to build off of that uh
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:10.150
we mentioned African-American
00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:11.910
communities and black communities and
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:15.910
their church uh I've been to a funeral
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:17.349
service at one before and you're
00:42:17.359 --> 00:42:19.270
absolutely right that they have a way of
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.470
bringing about a spirit with them uh
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.870
that's powerful i I do want to
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:27.829
acknowledge we are a country built on
00:42:27.839 --> 00:42:31.750
the back of slavery 100% uh I think that
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:34.630
it's important i would go for universal
00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:36.870
basic income and then as reparations I
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.390
would give it to the African-American
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:40.470
and black communities first and I'd be
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.710
like let's roll out the not not just
00:42:42.720 --> 00:42:44.630
like affirmative action of like we
00:42:44.640 --> 00:42:46.309
should have some people in here but like
00:42:46.319 --> 00:42:48.870
the let's just elevate these people but
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.870
on in the ways that people with
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.109
generational wealth and the benefits of
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:56.870
having a family lineage that extends
00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.270
beyond maybe two or three generations
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:02.309
because they get wiped out in the slave
00:43:02.319 --> 00:43:04.950
trade We're being treated not as people
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.990
but as objects well I want I like it's
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.030
funny you when you talk about
00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:11.390
reparations on that that aspect
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.710
i have a very difficult like I am a tax
00:43:14.720 --> 00:43:17.510
the churches tax the churches i tax the
00:43:17.520 --> 00:43:20.069
[ __ ] churches mhm except for the
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:21.150
black
00:43:21.160 --> 00:43:23.510
churches and I look at that as form of
00:43:23.520 --> 00:43:25.430
reparation here's what I would say we
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:27.030
can tax the churches but why don't we
00:43:27.040 --> 00:43:28.950
put them under the same standards and
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.270
obligations of every other 501c3 and
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.870
stop giving them special privileges and
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:34.230
status because of the religious
00:43:34.240 --> 00:43:35.990
exemptions because if they actually had
00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:37.589
to be like transparent a lot of these
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:39.270
mega churches because the ones that are
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:41.510
doing good works i.e overwhelmingly the
00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:42.470
black churches who are in their
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.309
communities serving making safe spaces
00:43:44.319 --> 00:43:46.390
putting joy bringing the call putting
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.150
light out they take care of themselves
00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:51.829
their own community
00:43:51.839 --> 00:43:53.030
i don't think they would lose anything
00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:54.390
but I do think that some of these mega
00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:55.910
churches would lose a lot if they had to
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:57.510
have the reporting requirements that are
00:43:57.520 --> 00:43:59.990
on everyone else 100% that actually
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.069
operate as a nonprofit that actually
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:04.309
operate as a nonprofit and right versus
00:44:04.319 --> 00:44:06.390
like the religious exemption portion of
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:08.630
it so yeah like I and and repar
00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:11.109
reparations can come in all I mean I'm
00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:14.150
down for universal i'm a big fan of UBI
00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:17.109
um for everyone but I also believe that
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.630
like reparations can be in the form of
00:44:18.640 --> 00:44:20.470
education free education and things like
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:21.910
that so it doesn't always like have to
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:25.750
be like you know like cash in per se you
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:27.829
know what I mean i I mean I I I'm all
00:44:27.839 --> 00:44:29.670
about it if it was I would the way our
00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:32.950
system currently deprivives people of it
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:34.309
right exactly if we're going to keep
00:44:34.319 --> 00:44:36.630
this system let's just flip the output
00:44:36.640 --> 00:44:39.750
so that we're doing it maybe in a more
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:42.790
equitable way more equitable way exactly
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:44.870
right and so but yeah the like that was
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.109
something that I was just like at that
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:49.750
church and you just you're like man like
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.349
I am not I don't I'm not a believer but
00:44:53.359 --> 00:44:55.190
if I ever was going to be y'all would
00:44:55.200 --> 00:44:57.430
turn me out right here at this church it
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.470
was really really wonderful um and while
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:01.910
we're talking about black churches I'd
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:03.109
love to give a shout out to the Great
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:04.550
Awakening Church of Christ who has
00:45:04.560 --> 00:45:06.150
hosted Trans Family Dinners here locally
00:45:06.160 --> 00:45:08.790
out in Portsouth um Pastor Joy is
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:11.829
amazing i love them um and it is the
00:45:11.839 --> 00:45:14.069
sort of thing that joy does reside
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:16.309
within their hall and it is I don't know
00:45:16.319 --> 00:45:17.829
I'm very grateful for churches like that
00:45:17.839 --> 00:45:20.390
that open their doors to us yes they're
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:24.230
they're great examples and it it it is
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:26.150
it is amazing because you know within
00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:29.349
the community there is that conflict and
00:45:29.359 --> 00:45:33.190
you know it is just
00:45:33.200 --> 00:45:36.230
um a great example of what Christianity
00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:39.109
really is for people and that is the
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.349
welcoming of and loving of all
00:45:43.359 --> 00:45:45.829
um and there are churches out there that
00:45:45.839 --> 00:45:47.829
do believe in that and the great
00:45:47.839 --> 00:45:50.470
awakening church is All of them
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.430
if uh Christian God exists when I pass
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:56.950
away I will strike them right in the
00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:00.630
throat oh wow what a hard segment we
00:46:00.640 --> 00:46:06.630
were like let's reconcile with our IT
00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:09.589
but their god is as real to me as my D&D
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:13.589
gods i'm throw video games you know what
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:17.589
i'm going to throw hey I think Jesus
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:19.510
would have had relations with a trans
00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:20.630
woman i think he would have been cool
00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:22.950
with it i think he would have been Jesus
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:24.550
was trans i think Jesus could have been
00:46:24.560 --> 00:46:28.069
a honestly
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.710
he's kind of like a demigod like I don't
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:34.309
know i watch Hercules
00:46:34.319 --> 00:46:38.270
yeah they do have a very inline
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.950
story phase where he would accidentally
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.270
like "Oh no I turn this water to wine
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:47.030
and drink it." Oh jeez teenage years oh
00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:49.990
my god hilarious well what else do we
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.030
have today well I feel like we have a
00:46:53.040 --> 00:46:54.390
lot of things we could talk about we
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:55.510
could talk about a couple of the trans
00:46:55.520 --> 00:46:57.270
wishes we fulfilled lately oh my gosh
00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:58.630
yes i would love to hear about that we
00:46:58.640 --> 00:46:59.990
got a wonderful message that just came
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:01.829
in i could read it verbatim but it was
00:47:01.839 --> 00:47:03.510
relatively short because they are still
00:47:03.520 --> 00:47:04.950
recovering from their top surgery they
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:06.550
just wanted to tell the coalition and
00:47:06.560 --> 00:47:07.829
all of our different members if you're
00:47:07.839 --> 00:47:09.510
listening if you contribute if you if
00:47:09.520 --> 00:47:10.790
you're not a member now you can go find
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:12.069
out more about memberships you can
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:13.510
contribute to our work to help make the
00:47:13.520 --> 00:47:15.109
safe spaces with the trans family dinner
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.950
but also to help us fulfill wishes which
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:18.550
was our microrant program where we gave
00:47:18.560 --> 00:47:20.309
direct assistance and we had someone who
00:47:20.319 --> 00:47:22.150
had their top surgery and we were able
00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:23.750
to help them with their rent make sure
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:25.430
that they were able to heal and actually
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:27.190
be in a safe space while they're healing
00:47:27.200 --> 00:47:28.710
and we absolutely love them we send them
00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:30.069
love and of course we do it all
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:31.270
anonymously cuz we're not going to put
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:32.950
out their identifying details or such
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:34.950
but it is a sort of thing that trans
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:36.790
family for us means a little bit more
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:38.390
than just feeding sometimes it also
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:40.710
means the materially showing up when we
00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:42.550
can how we can and when you support us
00:47:42.560 --> 00:47:44.309
or you support the coalition you're
00:47:44.319 --> 00:47:46.950
enabling us to do that so thank you to
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:48.910
everyone who does
00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:52.390
amazing that anything else
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:56.630
well no I think uh I think we've we've
00:47:56.640 --> 00:47:59.349
done a a good job super happy to have
00:47:59.359 --> 00:48:00.870
Chloe here super happy to have Chloe
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:02.390
here we didn't we didn't get to talk
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:04.630
about Sticky Basket too much though
00:48:04.640 --> 00:48:06.550
sticky B
00:48:06.560 --> 00:48:10.069
well let's No let's talk about Sticky
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:12.150
Basket you're building your YouTube uh
00:48:12.160 --> 00:48:13.829
yes yeah you've been you've been you've
00:48:13.839 --> 00:48:16.309
been doing and I was very intrigued by
00:48:16.319 --> 00:48:18.870
Sticky Basket so
00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.150
so uh Sticky Basket was originally a
00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:24.230
let's play channel I did and then the
00:48:24.240 --> 00:48:26.470
world shut down for COVID i went through
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:29.430
some stuff and it's an interesting sort
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.349
of examination because there are parts
00:48:31.359 --> 00:48:33.910
of me in there where it's before I came
00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:36.150
out and so it's tough for me to watch
00:48:36.160 --> 00:48:37.670
sometimes but then I look at the
00:48:37.680 --> 00:48:39.589
transformation that occurs over the
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:41.589
channel and there's a moment in there
00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:43.910
where it's probably 2 weeks before one
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:46.309
of my lowest points in life where I say
00:48:46.319 --> 00:48:48.470
something along the lines of "Some days
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:50.470
your basket just isn't that sticky." And
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:51.990
that's okay you just got to keep
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.549
persevering and then one day maybe it'll
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:57.349
be sticky again just find what gets your
00:48:57.359 --> 00:48:59.349
basket sticky and go for that you know
00:48:59.359 --> 00:49:00.950
and then it that's how you came up with
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:04.230
sticky and it stuck things like it was
00:49:04.240 --> 00:49:08.069
sticky enough that it stuck the the
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.630
trans joy and stuff along those lines i
00:49:10.640 --> 00:49:14.790
am very staunchly sort of pacifist uh
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.349
but one of my favorite things that I've
00:49:17.359 --> 00:49:18.950
been able to share with my audience
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.870
because they've helped me grow so much
00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.910
it again the revitalization process was
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.270
a originally a class assignment that an
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:29.910
old friend from high school commented on
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:33.589
and I he had posted "Babe wake up sticky
00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:36.230
basket just posted another video and it
00:49:36.240 --> 00:49:38.390
made me super excited and so I was like
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.950
I'm going to bring it back." Oh yeah uh
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:44.150
and now it's where I kind of share the
00:49:44.160 --> 00:49:46.390
story of Dark Souls with my audience and
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.470
then we had uh a certain goofball get
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:53.910
elected to our president and he decided
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:57.309
to appoint his own
00:49:57.319 --> 00:49:59.589
gesture uh and just sort of make a
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.510
mockery of the government and that kind
00:50:01.520 --> 00:50:03.670
of brought up some painful things for me
00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:05.750
yep so I haven't been able to play Dark
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.829
Souls as much as I'd like but we did
00:50:07.839 --> 00:50:09.670
just recently conclude the Dark Souls
00:50:09.680 --> 00:50:12.670
woke extravaganza so
00:50:12.680 --> 00:50:15.750
extravaganza i love that i want to I was
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:19.349
curious what exactly is a sticky basket
00:50:19.359 --> 00:50:21.589
basket that's sticky you know what Cody
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:23.950
i I Thank you
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:26.549
for your shoes stuck to the floor in the
00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.309
movie theater
00:50:28.319 --> 00:50:31.829
yes probably like that on a basket
00:50:31.839 --> 00:50:35.430
maybe 13 or 14 years old do any of you
00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.670
remember the store Albertson's oh I know
00:50:37.680 --> 00:50:39.349
Albertson's i was in California for 5
00:50:39.359 --> 00:50:41.750
years i went I went into an Albertson's
00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:45.750
as a youth and I saw a green apple push
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:47.670
pop green apple is my favorite flavor by
00:50:47.680 --> 00:50:51.190
the way all right i was not old enough
00:50:51.200 --> 00:50:53.990
to engage in child labor we didn't have
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.549
any of the kind conservatives who are in
00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:58.150
office now that want to send the
00:50:58.160 --> 00:51:00.950
children back to the mines they're child
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:02.710
labor i was able to engage in child
00:51:02.720 --> 00:51:05.589
labor i the closest I could get was $5
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:08.230
an hour working for my dad re- roofing a
00:51:08.240 --> 00:51:11.510
house wow $5 an hour re- roofing i was
00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:13.430
able to earn enough money to buy a first
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:17.109
generation iPod touch oh I was too young
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:19.829
for an iPhone oh my gosh not but if I
00:51:19.839 --> 00:51:21.589
stood in the corner of my yard I was
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:23.430
able to get a Wi-Fi signal for my
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:24.870
neighbors and I was able to download
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:27.190
this one game Paper Toss and it's all
00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:28.950
the fun of sitting in an office and
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.190
throwing a ball of paper into the back i
00:51:31.200 --> 00:51:34.950
played the paper toss game yes um I had
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:39.510
an original iPod yes so did I yes i was
00:51:39.520 --> 00:51:42.950
That's how old I am very proud of the
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:45.430
original very proud of And I probably
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:47.270
could not work it you remember the
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:49.030
Remember when it got the the touch the
00:51:49.040 --> 00:51:51.829
touch not when you had the push but when
00:51:51.839 --> 00:51:54.069
you couldoop like and it had the little
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:56.549
LCD o remember when the iPod color came
00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:59.270
out and you could play solitire yes yeah
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:02.150
okay see we're back in this day i had
00:52:02.160 --> 00:52:04.309
this is okay but I had I had like an
00:52:04.319 --> 00:52:07.190
original like disc man like a CD i mean
00:52:07.200 --> 00:52:07.870
I
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.430
was from your I had
00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:13.750
a No i had a Walkman at one time um and
00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:15.589
I also by the way had a corded telephone
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:17.750
in my house y'all do you all remember we
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.670
had styluses and we had like the big
00:52:19.680 --> 00:52:21.349
piece of like slate and we had to like
00:52:21.359 --> 00:52:24.390
chisel yeah remember when I had a light
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:26.309
bright
00:52:26.319 --> 00:52:28.309
i remember this one guy he was sent up
00:52:28.319 --> 00:52:30.710
to this hill to get these commandments
00:52:30.720 --> 00:52:33.430
from God he was given 15 commandments
00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:36.150
and then homeboy drops one of the stones
00:52:36.160 --> 00:52:37.750
and you know what was on that what it
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.069
said don't use AI don't let the cars
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:42.069
drive themselves
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:43.829
if you ever meet someone by the name of
00:52:43.839 --> 00:52:46.230
Elon Musk don't trust his Path of Exile
00:52:46.240 --> 00:52:48.549
2 account where he pays people in China
00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:51.670
to boost for him i feel like Chloe is
00:52:51.680 --> 00:52:53.430
going to judge me when Chloe goes
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:55.510
outside and sees that I'm driving a
00:52:55.520 --> 00:52:59.510
swasta car don't judge me Chloe i know
00:52:59.520 --> 00:53:02.150
parked outside we all make mistakes we
00:53:02.160 --> 00:53:03.990
all Yeah there are shoes while the cars
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.710
hey it was before you knew it was before
00:53:06.720 --> 00:53:09.670
i mean I kind of a lot of people a a lot
00:53:09.680 --> 00:53:10.630
of people have done a lot of things
00:53:10.640 --> 00:53:11.910
before they knew it was bad for me
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:13.430
honestly the company is named after
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:16.069
Nicola Tesla and the guy the problem I
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:18.069
have is between Nicola Tesla and Thomas
00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:19.990
Edison Nicola Tesla was the furthest
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:21.829
thing from a capitalist you could be as
00:53:21.839 --> 00:53:23.589
an electronics person that's why they
00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:25.349
killed him i'm a I'm an electronics
00:53:25.359 --> 00:53:26.710
technician that's why we all learned
00:53:26.720 --> 00:53:29.190
about Thomas Edison and not Tesla yeah
00:53:29.200 --> 00:53:31.750
oh yeah uhhuh yep mhm that's But if you
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:33.750
watch the Prestige you can see the real
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:36.309
story of Nicola Tesla don't trust what
00:53:36.319 --> 00:53:38.150
you read in the history books that's
00:53:38.160 --> 00:53:40.309
written by Watch the Prestige i have to
00:53:40.319 --> 00:53:42.150
take I got to eat in order to get rid of
00:53:42.160 --> 00:53:43.829
my car i'm going to have to eat it so
00:53:43.839 --> 00:53:45.829
hard though the value of the Teslas
00:53:45.839 --> 00:53:48.630
right now is sucking
00:53:48.640 --> 00:53:50.870
no no this is the time to take your
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:52.790
Tesla out to the country and sell it to
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:54.390
a
00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:58.230
MAGA yeah gas station cowboy i totally
00:53:58.240 --> 00:54:00.549
need to sell it sell it to a gas station
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:03.829
you need to go find somebody with a
00:54:03.839 --> 00:54:06.630
Trump vent sticker and American flag
00:54:06.640 --> 00:54:09.510
flying behind their white truck and give
00:54:09.520 --> 00:54:12.790
them a good deal on a Tesla god damn it
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:15.190
you could also put a hunk of your horny
00:54:15.200 --> 00:54:18.390
bumper sticker on it oh I have so many i
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:21.109
have the I did I did not see that coming
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:23.109
with the thing on the back of it just so
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:26.069
you know I just am so ashamed to drive
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:27.510
it right now but whatever what do you
00:54:27.520 --> 00:54:29.829
think of people merging are people nice
00:54:29.839 --> 00:54:33.589
to you in a Tesla while merging so I
00:54:33.599 --> 00:54:35.030
don't know because I'm an [ __ ] driver
00:54:35.040 --> 00:54:38.150
and I just get in so um but that's not
00:54:38.160 --> 00:54:39.910
an [ __ ] driver that's someone driving
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:41.270
properly
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.030
when you're merging yours you have to
00:54:43.040 --> 00:54:44.870
just get in so many people just get in
00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:47.710
yes so many
00:54:47.720 --> 00:54:50.870
people zipper effect baby zipper effect
00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:53.190
person in front of me going 40 mph speed
00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:55.349
limit 60 i got to get up to speed and
00:54:55.359 --> 00:54:57.910
then this car honks at me so then
00:54:57.920 --> 00:54:59.589
finally I'm able to get out from around
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:01.750
them and I zoom up and the guy looks
00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:03.270
over at me and it's like "What do you
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.670
want the bird?" And then he he he does
00:55:05.680 --> 00:55:07.109
his "What do you want?" And it's like
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.270
"Okay bud whatever i'm going too fast
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:11.510
for this definitely oh yeah i love to
00:55:11.520 --> 00:55:14.470
smoke i got my verite blasting you know
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:18.309
yeah I look don't I will drive one of my
00:55:18.319 --> 00:55:20.150
favorite things to do is drive very fast
00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:25.750
so um I was why I enjoy the Tesla um but
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.990
I do just get in but I will have to say
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.790
that I somebody threw a soda on my car
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:32.390
oh goodness and And you couldn't even be
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:34.390
mad at him could you you were like I
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.030
couldn't even be like up and you were
00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:39.190
like I literally was like I get it i
00:55:39.200 --> 00:55:41.270
wasn't even mad i just I'm just gonna
00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:43.270
you know go through the car i literally
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:45.430
was like I literally left the parking
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.109
garage and was like I'm gonna go through
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:49.910
the car wash on my way home but I'm not
00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.030
even mad like I just attack you know it
00:55:53.040 --> 00:55:55.750
it is I just I'm like cool like whatever
00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:58.069
birds can [ __ ] all over my car y'all can
00:55:58.079 --> 00:56:00.069
throw so does I don't care okay it's
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:01.430
fine i'll just go through garbage just
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:03.589
don't [ __ ] up my car like just don't you
00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:05.349
know i have a little story okay yeah
00:56:05.359 --> 00:56:07.270
tell Um I we I just recently finished my
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.910
name change paperwork process i got my
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:11.109
driver's license all sort of stuff at
00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:12.710
Social Security best I could we talked
00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:13.990
about it a couple weeks ago but it came
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:15.109
through and one of the things I had to
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:17.190
do was update my vehicle registration
00:56:17.200 --> 00:56:18.470
you know I was at the DMV and want to
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:19.510
make sure that my name matched on the
00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:20.630
vehicle registration all those little
00:56:20.640 --> 00:56:22.390
things some folks may forget to do that
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:23.589
while they're at the DMV when they're
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:24.230
getting their name changed because
00:56:24.240 --> 00:56:25.670
they're so excited but also definitely
00:56:25.680 --> 00:56:27.030
get your vehicle registration updated
00:56:27.040 --> 00:56:29.349
when you're go um but uh then while I
00:56:29.359 --> 00:56:30.470
was doing that I also had to update my
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:32.150
plates so I was just like it was like I
00:56:32.160 --> 00:56:33.109
need to get the registration for my
00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:34.789
plates and I was went on the website and
00:56:34.799 --> 00:56:36.230
you know you can get vanity plates very
00:56:36.240 --> 00:56:38.549
easily and um I have some pretty cool
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:39.670
vanity plates right now i don't know if
00:56:39.680 --> 00:56:40.950
I want to out my license plate cuz I
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:41.990
don't know if I want people to be able
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.309
to find me in that way but um I was
00:56:44.319 --> 00:56:45.750
thinking about getting a new one and uh
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:47.670
I was really disappointed that it got it
00:56:47.680 --> 00:56:54.190
I was going to get fuel on f u e l o n
00:56:54.200 --> 00:56:58.390
oh f eon
00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:02.069
so you can't have it they didn't say no
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:05.030
i'm waiting to see I mean like we'll see
00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:06.630
if it'll like toss a flight because it
00:57:06.640 --> 00:57:08.950
is fuel on it's an EV you know fuel on
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:11.430
hey we're going to keep on Yeah fueling
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:15.510
on i don't know oh anyways that was my
00:57:15.520 --> 00:57:17.109
idea that's my story if anyone would
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:19.349
like to get the license plate fuel on it
00:57:19.359 --> 00:57:22.549
is a way to uh Yeah well yeah send a
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:24.950
message well hopefully it'll be yours
00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:27.109
and no one in Virginia can get it but if
00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:29.510
you live in another state you need
00:57:29.520 --> 00:57:32.470
vanity plates yes i I am devastated
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:34.870
actually i just checked the chat someone
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.030
said that Pluto should be destroyed
00:57:37.040 --> 00:57:38.910
actually
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:41.589
oh what has Pluto ever done to anybody
00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:43.670
the reason I'm devastated is because I
00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:45.829
see I see exactly where they're coming
00:57:45.839 --> 00:57:48.390
from we should blow the planet up then
00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:49.910
we won't have to argue about whether or
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:51.510
not it's a planet we could just fix the
00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:54.309
argument then it's a it's it's a it's an
00:57:54.319 --> 00:57:56.309
asteroid belt it's an asteroid belt
00:57:56.319 --> 00:57:58.069
exactly it's going to get sucked into
00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:00.309
like Yeah sucked into somebody's
00:58:00.319 --> 00:58:02.710
gravitational pool probably ours and
00:58:02.720 --> 00:58:04.549
then that's that'll be our demise and
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:06.950
that's what we get for Speaking of
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:09.510
sucking things in how is Trump and
00:58:09.520 --> 00:58:12.390
Putin's relationship going i heard he
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:15.510
was very mad at him yesterday I did my
00:58:15.520 --> 00:58:17.109
Yesterday I did my what the [ __ ] just
00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:21.109
happened today and I heard that Trump
00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:24.190
was really bad big mad at his
00:58:24.200 --> 00:58:27.109
friend so um I don't know i think
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:29.990
they're going to break up they they I
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:32.630
mean let's let's hope for I don't know i
00:58:32.640 --> 00:58:33.589
What are they What are they going to do
00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:35.750
crimea River sorry that's that's really
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.990
bad i'm Wasn't I thought both of those
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:42.230
wars were supposed to be over like Oh
00:58:42.240 --> 00:58:44.069
right the first day in office yeah
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:47.349
january 21st yeah yeah well they didn't
00:58:47.359 --> 00:58:49.270
get the memo they didn't get the memo
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:51.510
it's after the trade wars
00:58:51.520 --> 00:58:53.670
oh no you guys I have to charge my phone
00:58:53.680 --> 00:58:55.910
it died and it's the only key I have to
00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:01.589
my car well so on that note
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:05.430
on that note um
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:07.910
I did want to go ahead and thank Yes
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.710
thank you Chloe sticky basket yes thank
00:59:10.720 --> 00:59:13.270
you absolutely i really It was a blast
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:16.589
being for coming on the show and uh for
00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:21.589
sharing your joy with us mhm um I'd like
00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:23.349
to give another quick little shout out
00:59:23.359 --> 00:59:26.309
out to uh the Friendly City Safe Space
00:59:26.319 --> 00:59:29.349
out in Harrisonburg Virginia for
00:59:29.359 --> 00:59:31.910
allowing me to uh share in their joy on
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:34.950
trans day of visibility
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.270
um and thank you Thea for all the work
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that Thea does out there spreading joy
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and giving joy and sharing joy all over
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the place um you know and of course
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Melissa I don't think she's sharing joy
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with some of these politicians but I'm
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glad she's out there sharing i love what
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you're
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definitely no joy as a matter of fact
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most of them are like "It's her again."
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But yes I will continue to share that
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and I will share my joy that I do have
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with all of the people I actually give a
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[ __ ] about which are not politicians and
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also I'm very grateful for you Cody not
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just because of the things you do for
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your family and community and the way
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you stand up but the way that you help
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and support me the way that you support
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all of your friends and family um we
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love you Cody we love you Cody well I I
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love all of you guys and I want all of
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you out there that are hopefully
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watching or will will watch this show um
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to to show up yeah show up show up show
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up show up with joy and drag two friends
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with you and drag two friends with you
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leave your phone at home and go to
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Lowe's and build a sign beforehand make
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a play date with your friends don't pick
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up a pizza boxy ideally Chloe would like
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for you to put some effort into that
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yeah but but if not we'll take what we
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can get pizza we'll take what we can get
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i'm just going to be judgy it's okay
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i'll I'll I won't judge you too hard
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it's fine there you go but joy is the
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greatest act of resistance and as we
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like to say around here transjoy beats
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hate every time hell yeah banana bread
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hell yeah thank you all for watching bye
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